Sublime

So far all of Leonardo’s benefactors had fallen short. When he was a young painter in Florence, the city was ruled by one of history’s super-patrons, but Lorenzo de’ Medici gave him few if any commissions and sent him away carrying a lyre as a diplomatic gift. As for Ludovico Sforza, it was many years after Leonardo’s arrival in Milan before he was

The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described

probablement aperçue qu’avec cet incorrigible prodigue

Parce que c’était clair : Arturo Bandini n’était pas de la pédale, il n’y avait rien qui clochait chez Arturo Bandini ; même qu’il avait assez de passion pour six, ce garçon, et cette passion il l’avait sentie monter à la surface : quel homme, tout de même, il se posait un peu là comme écrivain et comme amoureux – aussi à l’aise avec le monde qu’av

Ernest already had plans for the royalties from the book. He was going to establish a trust fund for his family with the earnings from the first 70,000 copies; everything beyond that was going toward the purchase of a boat.

Introduce a Fascinating Protagonist (Protag):

he was simply an early lover of mankind,