Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci:
The Mind of the Renaissance

First Italian edition. The cover featuring the portrait of the Archangel Uriel, detail of the Virgin of the Rocks, Louvre.
Author	Alessandro Vezzosi
Original title	Leonardo da Vinci: arte e scienza dell'universo
Translator	Françoise Liffran (French) Alexandra Bonfante-Warren (English)
Cover artist	Leonardo da Vinci
Language	Italian
Series	Universale Electa/Gallimard●Arte (IT) Découvertes Gallimard●Peinture (FR) Abrams Discoveries (US) New Horizons (UK)
Release number	73rd in collection (IT) 293rd in collection (FR)
Subject	Leonardo da Vinci
Genre	Illustrated biography, nonfiction monograph
Publisher	Electa/Gallimard (IT) Éditions Gallimard (FR) Harry N. Abrams (US) Thames & Hudson (UK)
Publication date	1 September 1996 16 April 2010 (new ed.)
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1997
Media type	Print (paperback), e-book for iPad (2012)
Pages	200 (Italian ed.) 160 (French, UK and US eds.)
ISBN	978-88-445-0083-2 (first edition)
OCLC	55046911
Preceded by	Matisse: "uno splendore inaudito" (IT) François Truffaut : Les films de sa vie (FR)
Followed by	L'oro di Troia e il sogno di Schliemann (IT) Descartes : Bien conduire sa raison (FR)

Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance (UK title: Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man; Italian: Leonardo da Vinci: arte e scienza dell'universo; French: Léonard de Vinci : Art et science de l'univers, lit. 'Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Science of the Universe') is a 1996 illustrated biography of Leonardo da Vinci authored by the Italian art critic Alessandro Vezzosi, translated from Italian into French by Françoise Liffran,^[1] and published by Éditions Gallimard in the same year as the 293rd volume in their "Découvertes" collection^[1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons" in the United Kingdom). The book was adapted into a documentary film in 2001, by the title Léonard de Vinci.^[2]

The Italian edition was published by Electa/Gallimard as the 73rd volume in the "Universale Electa/Gallimard" collection, which has a total of 200 pages, whereas the French edition contains only 160 pages. The English translation, however, is based on French text rather than the original Italian, as well as other international editions.