Leonardo's Notebooks

DaVinci's notebooks became repositories for all of his manifold passions and obsessions. As an engineer, he honed his technical skills by drawing mechanisms he encountered are imagined. As a court impresario, he jotted down designs for costumes, contrivances for moving scenery and stages. These are not St. Augustine's confessions, but rather the outward looking enthrallments of a relentlessly curious explorer.