Giuseppe Lanino

Léonard de Vinci est connu autant pour ses oeuvres d'art que pour ses trouvailles scientifiques. Savant visionnaire et artiste, il a marqué de son empreinte l'époque de la Renaissance. Char d'assaut, métier à tisser, hélicoptère, parachute, roulement à billes : ses inventions lui ont permis d'acquérir le statut de génie scientifique de son vivant. Pour une partie d'entre elles, il a principalement oeuvré à améliorer des systèmes et des techniques déjà existants à l'époque de la Grèce antique, de la Chine ancienne ou encore de l'Empire arabe. Quelle est l'étendue réelle du génie scientifique de Leonardo ?

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

New evidence suggests that many of Leonardo da Vinci's ideas can be traced to other scientists as far back as 1700 years. This film was used as the S16E5 episode of the PBS TV series Secrets of the Dead broadcast on 2017/04/05.

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Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.