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Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
394 pp.
| Atheneum |
October, 2006 |
TradeISBN 1-4169-0543-X$16.95
(3)
YA
Ordinary matters, like debts to merchants and street fights between lads, intersect with matters of political intrigue, alchemy, and art to weave a complex tale about the creation of Leonardo's The Last Supper in fifteenth-century Milan. The painter's curious, ambitious, and resolutely insolent fifteen-year-old servant, Giacomo, makes a compelling narrator.