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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Da Vinci Rising
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'"Da Vinci Rising" takes place in Florence, Italy, during the 15th-century. Leonardo Da Vinci, the unprecedented inventor, painter, sculptor, and architect, has promised Lorenzo de' Medici that in two weeks' time he'll be prepared to launch his great "flying machine," an invention that will "carry man in the air like a bird. . . ." A series of mishaps, design flaws, and accidents send Leonardo and his apprentice, Niccolo Machiavelli, back into his studio to rethink and redesign his "Great Bird." When his device is perfected, it's put to use in ways Leonardo cannot control.'

Source: Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030901/jubilee.shtml). (Sighted: 1/7/2014).

Notes

  • Author's website notes that 'this novella integrates several sections of Dann's novel The Memory Cathedral with approximately 5000 words of new material'. Source: http://www.jackdann.com. Sighted 28/03/2011.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Asimov's Science Fiction vol. 19 no. 6 May 1995 Z1768822 1995 periodical issue science fiction 1995 pg. 116-166
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Jubilee Jack Dann , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2001 Z895073 2001 selected work short story novella

    A retrospective collection of Jack Dann's short stories. The stories were originally published between 1978 and 2001.

         Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2001     pg. 238-299
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y separately published work icon The Memory Cathedral : A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci Jack Dann , New York (City) : Bantam Books , 1995 Z855291 1995 single work novel historical fiction fantasy 'The Memory Cathedral is the secret history of Leonardo da Vinci, adventurer, traveller, inventor, and lover of Lorenzo the Magnificent's mistress. Based on Leonardo′s own notebooks, this expansive, multi-layered novel is ostensibly about Leonardo′s flying machines. But it is really a magical exploration of the man, his drives, his loves, his friends, and fabulous inventions. It takes place in the Florence of Lorenzo de Medici and in the fabled, mythical east. Indeed, there is real evidence that Leonardo travelled to Egypt and Persia under the protection of the Devatdar of Syria, Lieutenant of the Sacred Sultan of Babylon. Imagine what would happen if Leonardo de Vinci had been given the chance to put his fabulous inventions to use - his bombs and machine guns and submarines and tanks and flying machines. Imagine Leonardo and a young Niccolo Machiavelli flying in a balloon over Egypt. Imagine Leonardo′s closest friend Sandro Botticelli being exorcised in Florence and riding through deserts with the Caliph of Egypt. Imagine living in the dangerous day to day world of the Renaissance and knowing intimately the greatest personages of the age. That is the experience of reading The Memory Cathedral'. Source: publisher's website.
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    Italy,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1400-1499
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