Pre-Owned The Queen's Gambit : A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery (Paperback) 9780425225561

from jenforbus

Leonardo di Vinci is the court engineer to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, in the late fifteenth century. The Duke, a.k.a. Il Moro, decides he wants to have a human chess match and Leonardo is in charge of making it happen. When one of the white bishops does not return from a break in the act...

from davidt8

Milan, Lombardy, 1483, and Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, is employing Lorenzo da Vinci as a military engineer and a master of fresco painting, but when a count, dressed as a bishop for a live chess game is found murdered in the garden, the duke, Il Moro, puts him in charge of discovering the mu...

from bookswoman

This was a fairly good book, I enjoyed a lot of the history and some glimpses into the world of Leonardo da Vinci and his young apprentices. I must admit to not much caring about the mystery, the development of the person killed wasn't there so I never really cared. Dino, the apprentice, was a fu...

from TheLibraryhag

Leonardo Da Vinci and his apprentice, Dino, investigate the murder of one of their master's family during a live chess match. Narrated by Dino, we see much of life in Renaissance Milan, and the inner workings of Leonardo's studio. The Leonardo of this book is a young man and that is very differen...

from TheLibraryhag

Leonardo Da Vinci and his apprentice, Dino, investigate the murder of one of their master's family during a live chess match. Narrated by Dino, we see much of life in Renaissance Milan, and the inner workings of Leonardo's studio. The Leonardo of this book is a young man and that is very differen...