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Article: The Catholic Leonardo Da Vinci.(Interview)
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- Catholic Insight
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- May 1, 2006
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Few would think to question Leonardo Da Vinci's genius, yet his life and works have often been the object of serious misinterpretations. Some books have presented him as an unbeliever and homosexual who was threatened by the Church. Others, such as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, present him as a master of esotericism.
To help put things in their right place, Italian philosopher Giuseppe Fornari has just published a book entitled La bellezza e il nulla: L'antropologia cristiana di Leonardo da Vinci (Beauty and nothingness: The Christian anthropology of Leonardo da Vinci).
In this work, Fornari argues that "far from being a heretic and blasphemer, a ...