TY - SER
AU - Paula Findlen
AU - J.G. Amato
AU - Veronica S.R. Shi
AU - Alexandria R. Tsagaris
AU - Carlo Vecce
CY - Stanford, CA
LA - English
N1 -
Published in conjunction with the exhibition commemorating the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, May 2-Oct. 13, 2019. Project manager for Stanford: Elizabeth Fischbach, exhibition designer.
- Foreword / Paolo Galluzzi
- Preface / John E. Mustain
- Acknowledgments / Paula Findlen
- Introduction. Leonardo's library: The world of a Renaissance reader / Paula Findlen
- Omo (quasi) sanza lettere: Leonardo's quest to teach himself classical Latin / Veronica S.-R. Shi
- The moral paradoxes of reading: how Leonardo grappled with difficult ideas / J.G. Amato
- Leonardo in the age of Gutenberg: between the manuscript codex and the printed book / Paula Findlen
- Reading the city, reading the body: the architectural education of Leonardo / Alexandria R. Tsagaris
- Inside nature's mind: Leonardo's scientific and medical books / Paula Findlen
- Epilogue : "Old friends": Leonardo's books (before the library) / Carlo Vecce
- Books & manuscripts in the exhibition
- Leonardo's list of books / Paula Findlen and Carlo Vecce
PB - Stanford University Libraries
PP - Stanford, CA
PY - 2019
SN - 9780911221633
EP - 197 pp.
TI - Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader
ER -