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The Da Vinci world of known unknowns

Was Leonardo really vegetarian, agnostic and a fashion icon? In this searingly brilliant new ‘anti-biography’ we learn there isn’t much we can say about him with any certainty at all

Alexander Lee
Self-portrait, by Leonardo da Vinci, c.1516. Bridgeman Images
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    Stephen J. Campbell

    Princeton University Press, pp. 352, £30

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