Leonardo da Vinci was a television show.
Leonardo da Vinci . Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the `` Universal Genius '' or `` Renaissance Man '' , an individual of `` unquenchable curiosity '' and `` feverishly inventive imagination '' . La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci -- in English , The Life of Leonardo da Vinci -- is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 -- 1519 ) .