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LEONARDO

Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci

By Serge Bramly

Edward Burlingame Books, 493 pp., illus. $35

In France, where they order things better, the first thing that comes to mind when you name "Leonardo" is not a Ninja Turtle but Leonardo da Vinci, creator of one of the nation's chief tourist attractions, the Mona Lisa. One of its guards, Serge Bramly tells us in his new biography of Leonardo, fell in love with the lady in the painting, talked to her, reacted jealously to visitors who approached too close, and claimed that she smiled back at him.

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