Both Leonardo di Vinci, on his deathbed in 1519, and R-, a historian in the twentieth century, ponder the reasons the artist abandoned work on his enormous statue of a horse in Milan
"A scintillating sliver of history. . . . An inventive introduction to the Renaissance and one of its masters." (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "An unusual and surprisingly touching story...
Tells about Leonardo da Vinci's life and the story of his model clay horse that was destroyed before he could make a bronze statue.
Leonardo's Horse
What fused them together? In a nutshell, these are the three pieces of a complicated puzzle that Nico Costa, a young Florentine archaeologist, seeks to settle.