by Sherwin B. Nuland · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439708582
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«Leonardo da Vinci» is Sherwin B. Nuland's biography of the Renaissance genius, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
Nuland, a specialist in the history of the human body, approaches Leonardo through his facets as painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician and scientist. The book explores the engine of his curiosity, his relationships and his anatomical studies, and presents him as an empirical mind far ahead of his time.
This edition belongs to the 'vita-breve / Brief Life' collection, the Spanish version of the Penguin Lives series, translated by Isabel Núñez.
A read for those interested in biographies of artists, Renaissance art history and the relationship between art and science.
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Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
