Geographies in Depth
Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’
Leonardo da Vinci chipped away at the walls between “us” and “them” by placing all life, human and animal, on a level field.
Arielle Saiber is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Bowdoin College (Ph.D., Italian Literature, Yale). Saiber's books include Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature, History and Art co-edited with Stefano U. Baldassarri (Yale, 2000); Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Routledge, 2005); and Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
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