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Historical person
1452–1519
Leonardo trained in Florence and worked for patrons in Florence, Milan, Rome and elsewhere, producing paintings, anatomical studies, engineering designs and extensive notebooks. In 1516 he entered the service of Francis I and lived at Clos Lucé near Amboise until his death in 1519.
He appears naturally in fiction set at the early court of Francis I, including stories involving Claude of France and Anne Boleyn. Portrayals should distinguish surviving works and notebooks from later legends that make Leonardo responsible for every technological or intellectual innovation of his age.
In Rozsa Gaston’s Queen of Diamonds, as Anne encounters Leonardo da Vinci, Diane de Poitiers and the consequences of Mary Boleyn’s choices, she learns that brilliance at court offers opportunity only to those who can also control scandal. Christian Cameron’s Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five places Leonardo da Vinci within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
Series
The third Tom Swan adventure returns to the networks of collectors, bankers, soldiers and spies that connect Renaissance Italy with England and the Ottoman world. After Belgrade, Swan’s knowledge of classical antiquity is inseparable from the reputation he has acquired as an agent capable of surviving difficult missions.…
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The Anne Boleyn Chronicles reconstruct Anne Boleyn’s formative continental years before her emergence at the English court. Beginning in 1513 in Margaret of Austria’s household at Mechelen, the sequence follows Anne through the courts of Louis XII, Claude of France and Francis I, where language, ceremony, patronage and…
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