| PAGE | | BOOK I | | THE WHITE SHE-DEVIL—1494 | 3 | | BOOK II | | ECCE DEUS—ECCE HOMO—1494 | 36 | | BOOK III | | THE POISONED FRUITS—1494 | 57 | | BOOK IV | | THE WITCHES' SABBATH—1494 | 82 | | BOOK V | | THY WILL BE DONE—1494 | 104 | | BOOK VI | | THE DIARY OF GIOVANNI BOLTRAFFIO—1494-1495 | 129 | | BOOK VII | | THE BONFIRE OF VANITIES—1496 | 151 | | BOOK VIII | | THE AGE OF GOLD—1496-1497 | 172 | | BOOK IX | | THE SIMILITUDES—1498-1499 | 210 | | BOOK X | | CALM WATERS—1499-1500 | 260 | | BOOK XI | | THERE SHALL BE WINGS—1500 | 300 | | BOOK XII | | 'AUT CÆSAR AUT NIHIL'—1500-1503 | 320 | | BOOK XIII | | THE PURPLE BEAST—1503 | 361 | | BOOK XIV | | MONNA LISA GIOCONDA—1503-1506 | 385 | | BOOK XV | | THE HOLY INQUISITION—1506-1513 | 411 | | BOOK XVI | | LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO, AND RAPHAEL—1513-1515 | 425 | | BOOK XVII | | DEATH—THE WINGED PRECURSOR—1516-1519 | 437 | | EPILOGUE | 459 |
LEONARDO DA VINCI 'Sentio rediit ab inferis Julianus.'
(I feel that Julian has risen again.)—Petrarch. 'We see the encounter of vast contraries: Man-god against God-man—Apollo Belvedere against Christ.'—Dostoievsky.
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