Thomas Frangenberg: Introduction Charles Hope: The Biography of Leonardo in Vasari’s Vite Paul Taylor: Leonardo in the Low Countries Juliana Barone: The ‘official’ Vita of Leonardo: Raphael Trichet Du Fresne’s biography in the Trattato della pittura Giovanna Perini: Leonardo and his Eighteenth-Century Italian biographies Thomas Frangenberg: Between Translation and Fabrication: Leonardo in German-Speaking Countries before 1800 Matthew Craske: ‘A Wonderful Force of Nature’: an Account of how Leonardo da Vinci Sustained the Eighteenth-Century English Idea of a ‘Universal’ Genius Rodney Palmer: Leonardo’s Nonconformist Choices and his Legendary Death, from Vasari to 1869 Michela Passini: A fin-de-siècle Leonardo between History and Fiction: Gabriel Séailles and his ‘Psychological Biography’ of Leonardo (1892) Julia Friedman: Three Faces of Leonardo da Vinci in Fin-de-Siècle Russia Bradley Collins: Freud’s Leonardo. Its Cultural Moment and Legacy David Ekserdjian: Renato Castellani: Leonardo (1971) Martin Kemp: Do Biographies (and Portraits) Matter?
