Volume 4, Number 1 · February 11, 1965
The Mystery of Leonardo
By Ernst Gombrich
Leonardo da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)
reassembled, translated, and edited by Carlo Pedretti, with a Foreword by Sir Kenneth Clark
California, 280 pp., $12.00
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
by Sigmund Freud, translated by Alan Tyson
Norton, 112 pp., $3.50
Among the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci at the British Museum there is a famous and pathetic note written by the master in his fifty-sixth year:
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