With a best-selling thriller and play at Berkeley Rep, da Vinci is in renaissance

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: September 2, 2003| Author: Chad Jones, STAFF WRITER | Copyright information

EONARDO da Vinci, the original Renaissance man, was many things -- artist, scientist, inventor, philosopher -- but until the publication of Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code," Leonardo had yet to be an action-adventure hero. Sharing this summer's must-read list with the likes of Harry Potter, Hillary Clinton and Katharine Hepburn, da Vinci is the unlikeliest of secret agents, but that, in essence, is the role he plays in "The Da Vinci Code." The novel has stirred up all kinds of interest i...

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