Leonardo's Lost Notebooks
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In February 1967, it was revealed that two notebooks by the great 15th-century Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci, that had been lost for centuries, had been discovered in the national library in Spain. Louise Hidalgo talks to two people with a personal interest in the discovery, Da Vinci scholar Pietro Marani, and robotic engineer, Mark Rosheim, who used Leonardo's drawings to recreate the artist and inventor's lost Robot Knight.
(Photo: A self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci dated circa 1500. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.4 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over |
| 1:11.1 | at BBC Sounds. And now welcome to the podcast for our history program Witness. |
| 1:15.0 | My name is Louis Adagogo and today I'm taking you back to February |
| 1:20.0 | 1967 when it was revealed that two long- lost notebooks by the great 15th century Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci |
| 1:27.0 | had been discovered in a library in Spain. |
| 1:30.0 | I've been talking to two people with a personal interest in the discovery. |
| 1:34.0 | Leonardo da Vinci is one of the best known artists of all time. |
| 1:45.0 | The few works of art of his that have survived, like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, are beyond price. |
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