English Summary/英文概要： Carlo Vecce’s definitive biography on Leonardo: the boy from Vinci, the universal man, the wanderer. The life of one of the greatest minds in history is told to us by the only Leonardo scholar who knows his true story.

For many years Professor Carlo Vecce has been researching and recording the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Recently he made a very important discovery regarding the identity of the mother of Leonardo, and in March of 2023 Giunti published his groundbreaking novel, Il sorriso di Caterina, la madre di Leonardo. Now the companion volume -the life of Leonardo told in a non-fiction, biographical format- is available and will be published in early 2024: The Life of Leonardo, Son of Caterina.

Complete with footnotes and bibliography, Professor Vecce’s biography of Leonardo is written in a warm and elegant style, intertwining history and detail, events and artistry, to paint once and for all a complete portrait of a man whom we know so well but whose life nonetheless held many great mysteries.