Leonardo
Subtitle: The Artist and the Man
Contributors: Sian  Reynolds (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: March 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780140231755
First sentence: TOWARD THE MIDDLE of the sixteenth centry, the prolific Gliorgio Vasari, a mediocre painter but a respectable architect (he designed the Uffizi in Florence), began to document the lives of the greatest Italian artists.