The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
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"The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner" by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky is a novel first published in 1900. Set during the Renaissance, it follows young artist Giovanni Beltraffio as he studies under the master Leonardo da Vinci, struggling to understand why he cannot match his teacher's genius. Against a backdrop of conflict and tragedy, the novel explores the era's re-emerging humanism and the resurrection of ancient values, contrasting the spirit of
Antiquity with medieval darkness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Trench, Herbert, 1865-1923 |
| Uniform Title | Voskresshie bogi. English |
| Title | The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romance_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Katie Hernandez, Shaun Pinder, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Biographical fiction |
| Subject | Italy -- Fiction |
| Subject | Artists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 47902 |
| Release Date | Jan 10, 2015 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1423 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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