What do you think about Leonardo Da vinci?
You learn nothing if people simply agree with you. Yes, Da Vinci was brilliant. He was also extremely fortunate to be born in an age and place where he could demonstrate that brilliance instead of being executed for heresy. You didn’t mention that he was also a diplomat. It’s impossible for a man of such brillance to exercise his talents to that degree without knowing exactly who to kowtow to. He also recruited talented assistants to take some of the burden off himself. Things you can also say about Da Vinci is he was not an alcoholic, he believed in hard work, and he did not surround himself with noise and entertainments. We know very little about his sexual life because he was too busy to have much of one….
