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Audie Prize Nominee, History, 2013 Toby Lester, author of the award-winning The Fourth Area of the World, masterfully crafts yet another century-spanning saga of people and ideas in this epic storyline of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's iconic pulling of a man inscribed in a group and a square. As time passes, the nearly 550-year-old ink-on-paper sketch has changed into a collective mark of the type of genius, the wonder of the individual form, and the universality of the individual spirit; it has also been replicated advertisement nauseam on mass-produced caffeine cups, T-shirts, booklet covers, and corporate logos. With narrative flair and great intellectual sweep, Lester revives the abundant background of Vitruvian Man and endows the sketching with restored authenticity. Not only performed Leonardo subscribe to the idea-first conceived by the Roman architect Vitruvius-that the body was a microcosm geometrically aligned with the divine group and the earthly square, Lester discloses that by learning your body's proportions and anatomy, the designer also sensed he could obtain a godlike point of view of the world's cosmetic. Da Vinci's Ghost catches a pivotal amount of time in the annals of American thought, when the Middle Ages was presenting way to the Renaissance, when fine art and research and viewpoint all appeared to be converging as one, and when it felt possible, at least to Leonardo da Vinci, that a single individual might embody-and even understand-the characteristics of everything.
