There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all and who shall have wings, shall indeed be as a god.


Translated by Herbert Trench, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner, Chapter XI (p. 318)


There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all ...

There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all ...

There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all ...

There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all ...