The genius in the kitchen of Mario Pappagallo

There is no aspect of Leonardo's life that does not involve a dense mystery. This time we are not talking about flying machines, nor paintings jealously guarded in private collections. We are talking about a small compendium of recipes, annotations of table etiquette, hygienic rules entirely new for the time, attributed to the great artist-scientist.
Of this text, called the Romanoff Codex, only a transcript would have come down. Yet this evanescent material seems to have left many traces, and Mario Pappagallo retraces them, presentinga portrait of a Leonardo who was a master of ceremonies, a banquet organizer, a lover of good manners, a cultivator of spices and medicinal herbs, and an inventor of machinery with multiple applications. A fascinating hypothesis that will take us among the malodorous kitchens of Renaissance Florence, among poisonings and experiments, and then, in the centuries closer to us, through the complex history within History, in which Leonardo's traces are always lost and found.