2019年05月16日朝刊
ダビンチ沒後500年
Leonardo da Vinci's many shortcomings made him human
[中文譯文]
“如何從三角形里面切除一個正方形”，“每周六去泡一次澡”傲武，“畫出來啄木鳥舌頭的形狀”秃诵。萊昂納多? 達芬奇每天的待辦事項表里详瑞，列滿了類似這樣的條目姊扔。
今年春天出版的美國作家沃爾特?伊薩克森的《達芬奇?zhèn)鳌防镎f赤套，他親手書寫的手稿渠脉，現(xiàn)存有大概7000多份存皂。而達芬奇幾乎沒有受過正規(guī)的學(xué)校教育寻拂。他沒事就跑到洞窟里面去尋找化石什么的程奠，從小開始就好奇心特別旺盛。在筆記里祭钉，他寫道“經(jīng)驗比教育重要”瞄沙。
在閱讀達芬奇評傳時，我感覺到慌核，他的研究里面，研究了一半就扔下半途而廢的作品很多。熱心調(diào)查一下鳥的羽毛惦界，想研究怎么讓人也能飛上天的人工翅膀鲜戒。直升機和戰(zhàn)車的原型構(gòu)想他也思考過，但是沒有一個最后實現(xiàn)的粟按。在都市的里面修建運河的事業(yè)也讓他一段時間充滿干勁诬滩，但是計劃也是胎死腹中霹粥。
“教我吧，教我吧疼鸟。如果你問我完成了什么事蒙挑，我至今一事無成“，他在筆記中這樣寫道愚臀。他的繪畫也是半途而廢的作品較多忆蚀，現(xiàn)存完成的作品，只有《蒙娜麗莎》《最后的晚餐》等不到20幅姑裂。
雖然后世對他的評價各一馋袜，但是對于他研究到一半就丟下去做別的，輕易放棄這一點倒是差不多一致舶斧。但是這個你說他懶惰欣鳖，不如說是達芬奇特有的完美主義傾向。
即便是這樣茴厉，這位歷史上的天才原本是給人很難接近的感覺泽台，但是當(dāng)我們開始了解他身上種種短處之后，反而有種凡人接地氣的親近感矾缓。本月怀酷，我們紀(jì)念達芬奇逝世500周年。
[日文原文]
「三角形から正方形を切り出す」「毎週土曜は風(fēng)呂に行く」「キツツキの舌を描寫する」嗜闻。レオナルド?ダビンチは蜕依、そんな「やることリスト」を毎日のように書いた。
今春刊行された米作家アイザックソンのダビンチ伝（文蕓春秋）によれば琉雳、それら手書きの遺稿は７千枚も現(xiàn)存する样眠。ダビンチは學(xué)校教育をほとんど受けていない。洞窟で化石探しに熱中するなど翠肘、幼い頃から好奇心は旺盛檐束。「教育よりも経験の方が大切だ」と書いている束倍。
評伝を読んで意外に感じたのは被丧、途中で投げ出してしまった研究の多いこと。鳥の羽を調(diào)べ肌幽、人間を飛翔（ひしょう）させる人工翼の設(shè)計に熱中した晚碾。ヘリコプターや戦車の原型となる構(gòu)想も溫めたが、一つとして実現(xiàn)していない喂急。大都市に運河を走らせる事業(yè)にも意欲を燃やしたが格嘁、計畫倒れに終わった。
「教えてくれ廊移、教えてくれ糕簿。私に一つでもなし得たことがあるなら…….探入。完成したものがあるなら」。悲痛な嘆きを書き殘した懂诗。絵畫にも未完成作が多く蜂嗽、現(xiàn)存する作品は「モナ?リサ」「最後の晩餐」など２０點に満たない。
後世の人物像には幅があるものの殃恒、どうやら飽きっぽく植旧、物事を投げ出す傾向があったのは確からしい。怠け癖というより离唐、ダビンチならではの病附、ずぬけた完璧主義のなせる技かもしれない。
ともあれ亥鬓、およそ近寄りがたい天才だと思い込んでいたが完沪、諸々欠點もあったとわかると、凡人はにわかに親近感を覚える嵌戈。今月は沒後500周年という節(jié)目の月である覆积。
[英文譯文]
"Square a triangle.""Take a bath every Saturday.""Describe the tongue of the woodpecker."
Theses are some of the quirky entries Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519) added to his to-do lists practically every day, according to "Leonardo da Vinci," a biography published in 2017 by American writer and journalist Walter Isaacson. (A Japanese translation was published from Bungeishunju Ltd. this past spring.)
A whopping 7,000? or so handwritten pages of these eclectic lists have been preserved to this day.
Leonardo received no formal education to speak of. But with his passionate curiosity, which was already evident from a young age, he was once totally engrossed in exploring a cave in search of fossils.
He believed experience was more important thatn education.
Reading Issacson's biography, I was surprised to learn that there were numerous research projects Leonardo started but never completed.
At one time, for instance, he was fascinated with the workings of birds' wings, and tried to design artificial wings that would enable humans to fly. He also came up with conceptual prototypes of helicopters and tanks, but none of these ever materiaslized.
And there was a canal-builing project for a major city he was really into, but this, too, did not come to fruition.
"Tell me if anything was ever done...Tell me...Tell me," he wrote in his moment of abject defeat。
Many of his paintings were unfinished, too. Less than 20 completed works remain to this day, including the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper."
Although Lenardo was portrayed in different ways after his death, it appears that he ended to be fickle and was not inclined to see every undertaking through.
This probably had less to do with laziness than his extreme perfectionism. But after years of thinking of him as a colossal genius unapporachable to us ordinary mortals, finding out about his various human falilings suddenly made him feel a lot closer.
May 2 marked the 500th anniversary of his death.
