MILAN - It’s not a movie sequel, but Italian scholars are tackling a mystery that could be called “The Da Vinci Mold. Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of drawings and writings by the Renaissance master, has been infiltrated by fungus. The extent of any damage is not yet known to the roughly 1,120-page Codex containing his drawings and writings from 1478-1519 on topics ranging from flying machines to weapons, mathematics to botany. Marco Navoni, a historian at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana where the documents are housed. read more

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