
22.3.04
...what strikes awe in Leonardo is this promise, a scattering of ideas far ahead of his time and often such that could not possibly have been accomplished with the tools and knowledge available in his time.
Tetradki means notes, or notepads, in Russian. So, these are just notes, scattered observations on Renaissance men and women. None are finished, none pretend to be of any academic, literary, advisory or, indeed, any other value. Like Leonardo's notes, this is just an attempt to off-load the unbearable pressure of a curious and insatiable mind...