New Biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

“Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons are to be learned in these pages.” —David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Walter Isaacson, author of a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci, discusses the Renaissance genius' wildly eclectic notebooks that contained everything from landscape sketches to math equations to 'to do' lists. For more about Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson http://ow.ly/cHwn30d8Yrg

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La Vita Trasparente (The Transparent Life)

Gregg Chadwick

La Vita Trasparente (The Transparent Life)

48"x36" oil on linen 2012

Inspired by the poem

La Vita Trasparente by Luigi Fontanella:

LA VITA TRASPARENTE

Luigi Fontanella

Apre la città le sue strade,

corrono biciclette senza persone,

alla finestra s'affaccia

e sparisce un volto di donna,

le vetrine offrono sessi

per ogni stagione,

giro di vite:

balla una coppia agile e magra

nella piazza deserta,

la corsa degli uomini,

agita chiome il bosco

in controluce,

passi su foglie

e solchi di fango duro,

viale d'autunno

carrozza regale

pioggia di rugiada

e di carta:

la vita trasparente.

The Transparent Life

by Luigi Fontanella

(translation by W.S. di Piero)

the city opens its streets,

bicycles go by riderless,

a woman's face in a window

appears then vanishes,

shop windows offer fetishes

for every season,

lives turning,

a slender agile couple dances

in the deserted piazza,

the race men run,

the hairy woods shivering

against the grain of light,

footsteps on leaves

a furrow of stiff mud,

avenue of autumn

royal coach

rain of dew

and paper -

the transparent life.

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Luigi Fontanella