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Leonardo da Vinchi – priznannyĭ geniĭ, o kotorom i po seĭ denʹ slagaiut legendy, pripisyvaia emu postupki, vykhodiashchie za ramki chelovecheskikh. Ego odarennostʹ kazhetsia neveroiatnoĭ: uchenyĭ, izobretatelʹ, khudozhnik i… pisatelʹ. V ėtoĭ knige on predstaet velikim skazochnikom, avtorom skazok, legend i pritch o fantasticheskikh sushchestvakh i obyknovennykh zhivotnykh, rasteniiakh i dazhe kamniakh, nadelennykh darom rechi. Ėtot zhanr pozvolil Leonardo da Vinchi zavualirovanno vyrazitʹ svoi mysli po povodu okruzhaiushchego ego mira. V italʹianskoĭ literature ėpokhi Vozrozhdeniia velikiĭ khudozhnik zanimaet svoe, daleko ne poslednee mesto.

Leonardo da Vinci is a recognized genius, about whom legends are still being made up, attributing to him deeds that go beyond human limits. His talent seems incredible: a scientist, an inventor, an artist and... a writer. In this book, he appears as a great storyteller, the author of fairy tales, legends and parables about fantastic creatures and ordinary animals, plants and even stones endowed with the gift of speech. This genre allowed Leonardo da Vinci to express his thoughts about the world around him in a veiled way. In Italian Renaissance literature, the great artist occupies his own, far from the last place.