The history of the codices

The vicissitudes of of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codices are as intricate and complicated as the plot of a spy story, with personages contending the precious treasure in Europe and recently in America as well, and with scholars as committed to reconstructing their history as detectives hot on the trail of a geographically scattered terrain, possessing only a handful of documents to be compared and integrated with the innumeable folios already hard to decipher and jumbled in wild confusion by generations of different owners.

It was, of course, the codices of Leonardo that inspired one of the most successful novels of the moment, Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown, living proof of the interest and timeless success of these exceptional works of art.