《达芬奇·隐秘的惩罚》内容简介

　　1493年10月，佛罗伦萨城仍在哀悼伟大的洛伦佐(LorenzotheMagnificent)的逝世。哥伦布的船只开辟了新大陆的视野。在信用证的普及下，当代金融体系逐步巩固。在卢多维科·莫罗公爵（LudovicoilMoro）的带领下，米兰正处于复兴时期。

　　如果你冒险进入城堡的庭院或沿着运河漫步，可能会碰巧遇到一个四十岁左右的男人，身穿粉红色长袍，散发着温和的气息，总是沉浸在自己思绪里。他和他的母亲以及一个可爱但调皮的小伙子住在他商铺的附近，他不吃肉，左右镜像着写字，尽自己的能力给为他提供服务的人支付报酬。他正是莱昂纳多·达·芬奇（LeonardodaVinci）：他的名声已经超越阿尔卑斯山，传到了法国国王查理八世耳中。查理八世派遣了两名大使前往米兰，请求在和阿拉贡人的战争中提供帮助，但同时还有一项秘密任务，恰恰就是和他有关的。事实上，大家都知道莱昂纳多有一个笔记本，里面写了他最大胆的项目——甚至有可能是一个无敌的战争机器人——他把笔记本贴身藏着。卢多维科·莫罗公爵委托莱昂纳多建造一座青铜骑马雕像，然而交付一再延迟，公爵对此非常生气，但还是有事情得找他帮忙：公爵身边有一名男子被发现死在城堡的庭院里，尸体上没有任何暴力迹象，但死因疑点重重……必须迅速找到真相，消除瘟疫和迷信造成的阴影：莱昂纳多无法拒绝此事。

　　在达芬奇逝世五百年后，作者将语言、科学、历史和犯罪学娴熟运用于股掌之中，通过想象主人公在应对人类脆弱命运时的智慧，赋予了这本书生命。这是一部非凡的小说，充满了创造性、知识性和讽刺的意味，深入调查人类的创造力，也是一段衡量我们每一个人创造力的旅程。

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　　本书为意大利纪念达芬奇逝世500周年为主题的一本文学小说，已经被翻译成7国语言，长时间占据意大利四大媒体畅销书排行榜前三。小说将语言、科学、历史和犯罪学娴熟运用于股掌之中，整个故事充满了创造性、知识性和讽刺的意味。达芬奇的笔记本，就好像《鲁公秘录》一样有“得之则得天下”的地位，让当时欧洲各方权力都在为之角力。故事从一庄发生在权力中心的谋杀案开始，接二连三让人无法解释的死亡里，隐藏着让人难易猜度的真相。一个在五百年后仍玩弄我们的智慧,让世人惊奇的天才，玩味地揭开了人的本性。

　　作者简介

　　马尔科·马尔瓦尔迪（MARCOMALVALDI），1974年出生于比萨，化学家，于2007年开始写作生涯。他的第一部小说《五人游戏》，由SELLERIO出版社出版，并于2013年改编成电视连续剧《光明酒吧谋杀案》。还出版了小说《封闭的味道》（获得了Isolad'Elba奖和Castiglioncello奖）《数百万》《快银》《沙滩上的洞》《海战》《旁观者的眼睛》，随笔《括号中的无穷大》《从荷马到博尔赫斯的感伤科学史，卡普雷的计算》《规则计算与无秩序的永恒斗争，暴君的两个思维》《自由的数学方法，无形的建筑师或者化学家的思考方式》《笑着加水》和《关于幽默和语言的一篇小文章》。

"Da Vinci · Hidden Punishment" content introduction

In October 1493, the city of Florence was still mourning the death of LorenzotheMagnificent. Columbus' ships opened the horizon of the New World. With the popularization of letter of credit, the contemporary financial system is gradually consolidated. Under the leadership of Duke Ludovico Moro, Milan is in the midst of a Renaissance.

If you venture into the castle grounds or stroll along the canals, you might happen upon a man of about forty, dressed in pink robes, with a gentle air, always lost in his own thoughts. He lives near his shop with his mother and a lovely but mischievous young man who does not eat meat, writes with his left and right mirrors, and pays as much as he can for his services. He was LeonardodaVinci: his fame had reached beyond the Alps to the ears of King Charles VIII of France. Charles VIII sent two ambassadors to Milan to ask for help in the war against the Aragonese, but there was also a secret mission that concerned him. In fact, Leonardo was known to have a notebook filled with his most daring projects - perhaps even an invincible war robot - which he kept close to his chest. The Duke of Ludovico Moro commissioned Leonardo to build a bronze equestrian statue, but the Duke was very angry about the delay in delivery, but he had to ask him for help: a man near the Duke was found dead in the courtyard of the castle, the body showed no signs of violence, but the cause of death was suspicious... The truth must be found quickly and the shadows cast by plague and superstition must be removed: Leonardo could not refuse.

Five hundred years after Da Vinci's death, the author brings language, science, history and criminology to life by imagining the wisdom of his protagonist as he copes with the flimsy fate of humanity. This is an extraordinary novel, creative, intellectual and ironic, a deep investigation of human creativity and a journey to measure the creativity of each of us.

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This book is a literary novel on the theme of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci's death in Italy, which has been translated into seven languages and has long occupied the top three best-seller lists in the four major Italian media. With a masterful use of language, science, history and criminology, the story is creative, informative and ironic. Da Vinci's notebook, like the Lu Gong Secret Record, has the status of "getting the world", so that all the powers in Europe were wrestling for it at that time. The story begins with a murder in the heart of power, and a succession of unexplained deaths hides a truth that is hard to guess. A genius who, after 500 years, still amaze the world by toying with our wisdom, has playfully revealed the nature of man.

About the author

MARCOMALVALDI, born in Pisa in 1974, is a chemist who began his writing career in 2007. His first novel, The Game of Five, was published by SELLERIO and adapted into the TV series Murder at the Bright Bar in 2013. He has also published the novel "The Taste of Closure" (which won the Isolad'Elba Prize and the Castiglioncello Prize), "Millions", "Fast Silver", "The Hole in the Beach", "The Sea Battle", "The Eye of the Beholder", the essay "Infinity in Brackets", "A History of sentimental Science from Homer to Borges", and "The History of the World". Cappre's Calculations, "The Eternal Struggle between Regular Calculations and Disorder, the Two Minds of the Tyrant," "The Mathematical Method of Freedom, the Way of Thinking of the invisible architect or Chemist," "Adding Water with Laughter," and "A Little Essay on Humor and Language."