Charles Nicholl Bücher

Maler, Erfinder, Anatom, Musiker und Philosoph: Leonardo da Vinci gilt als einer der vielseitigsten und genialsten der großen Künstler - und als der geheimnisvollste. Obwohl er für sein Werk seit Jahrhunderten gefeiert wird, bleibt seine Person an sich schwer fassbar, verbleibt ein Großteil seiner Lebensgeschichte im Verborgenen. Historisch genau und zugleich spannend erzählt das Buch die Geschichte von Leonardos Leben – seiner Kindheit als Waise, den Lehrjahren in Florenz, seiner Anstellung bei den großen Fürsten seiner Zeit wie den Medicis oder Borgias und von seinem Lebensabend im Schloss Clos Lucé bei Amboise im Dienste Franz I. von Frankreich.

Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud s life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner. číst celé

Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.

From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, the author's twenty-five essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these historical traces.

This book is the first full-length investigation of the killing of brilliant, controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe in 1593. It traces Marlowe's shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Charles Nicholl penetrates four centuries of obscurity to expose not only a complex and unsettling story of entrapment and betrayal, chimerical plots and sordid felonies, but also a fascinating vision of the underside of an entire culture

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an �intimate portrait� of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.

Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The time is the early eighties and the place - Colombia. The Fruit Palace is a little whitewashed cafe that legally dispenses tropical fruit juices, has another purpose as the meeting place for a variety of black market activities and the place where Nicholl unwittingly begins his quest.