About the book: 2019 / The eyes of the legendary “La Gioconda”, her incomprehensible smile annually attract millions of people from all over the world to the Paris Louvre. No less incomprehensible is the titanic personality of its creator, Leonardo da Vinci - an artist, scientist, architect, strategist, inventor, whose universal genius, amazing even for the Renaissance, continues to amaze humanity many centuries later. Alberto Angela, having brilliantly demonstrated his rare talent in the pages of his books to revive long-gone eras, invites the reader to travel into the world of Leonardo and join a fascinating investigation into the history of the creation of his most famous masterpiece. An investigation that may reveal previously eluding details and lead to unexpected assumptions and versions.