The Fables Of Leonardo Da Vinci

Online, January 24, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The Fables of Leonardo da Vinci. A fittingly beautiful book of ten fables by Leonardo da Vinci, published by Roseheart Publishing, Chiefland, Florida.

Discovered in the back of Leonardo's notebooks by author Ed Tasca were several wonderful ideas and annotations for fables, which the great genius never completed. Tasca, an American of Italian descent, rescued them and fleshed in the ideas in a traditional fable format for people of all ages. This may be unique in the world of Leonardiana, a one-of-a-kind volume with biographical information about da Vinci and striking illustrations in the red chalk Renaissance style.

Leonardo had mastered virtually all the known arts, sciences and engineering principles of his time, without having had a formal education. If one could find one individual who represented the beginning of the modern intellectual world, it would be Leonardo da Vinci. This book may be considered the first volume of his fiction. The collection teaches how little stories can drive home insightful human ironies, while displaying a bit of the literary thought-processes of the Renaissance author. It is an attempt to reveal a little of the master's inner moral core through his fable ideas, those celebrating such virtues as humility, self-sacrifice and egalitarianism; and those deploring pretension, pomposity and dogmatism.

Ed Tasca is an award-winning humor writer and novelist, and a student of da Vinci's extraordinary life. "This little book of fables is a homage to the man who just had too many ideas to finish them all," Mr. Tasca believes. "It's also a delightful way to introduce children to Da Vinci and the Renaissance."