mother and the woman in a more broad-spectrum. Charles Nicholl’s major attempt in his book is to delineate all the passages regarding Leonardo’s life, clarifying some critical and controversial aspects belonging to it. To do so, Nicholl based his research on the work of Giorgio Vasari, the art historian who wrote the biographies of various Italian artists, and on many other literary and historical sources. Leonardo was born on the 15th April 1452 in Vinci, a little village “slow, provincial agrarian;