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Leonardo da Vinci

by Diane Stanley · 1996

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A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his famous notebooks which contain the outpourings of his amazing mind.

Subject
biographyhistoryscience
Themes
art
Setting
RenaissancemedievalMiddle AgesEurope
Audience
childrenspicture books

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