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Firstly, congratulations on your Leonardo da Vinci book in collaboration with Giuseppe Pallanti. The press release announces boldly that we’re to learn the secrets at the heart of the world’s most iconic work of art.

Of course, an air of mystery is perhaps fitting for a book with a subject like Leonardo da Vinci, whose life and work are suffused with myth and speculation.

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And yet, almost as a final punctuation in your closing paragraph, you state that “There is one Mona Lisa. It was painted by Leonardo. And it is in the Louvre”. I love this passage! Which summarises so well the spirit of the book.

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The facts speak for themselves, and they lead us to some very grounded conclusions about the painting, and also about Leonardo.

That’s exactly right. That was the nature of the endeavour. Obviously, the publicity of Leonardo cannot dodge Dan Brown and The Da Vinci Code.

From people I called ‘Leonardo Loonies’, I get sent letters probably every wee