Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man

style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Given how many texts have been devoted to Leonardo da Vinci, any new study must be special. Toby Lester’s Da Vinci’s Ghost hits the mark. It offers a compelling portrait of Leonardo, a potted history of western civilisation from ancient Rome to the Renaissance, and leavens scholarship with storytelling and graceful prose.