The union in Leonardo of reality to mysteryhas often been shared by genius in other fields.His own peculiar greatness sprang from express-ing in art the apparent contradiction of attainingthe world of mystery through force of reality.Like Hamlet, it was the union of the real with theunreal which… … I THOUGHTS ON LIFE * * EGUN at Florence in the house Of theof Piero di Braccio Martelli, on Worksthe 2 2d day of March, 1^08; and °this is to be a collection with-out order, taken from many pa-pers which I have copied here,hoping to arrange them later, each in its place, ac-cording to the various…
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