text: Well, I'd say that I didn't learn allot directly from the book.  Most of the stuff that I learned about him were from the countless documentaries that saturated the education channels during the controversy of the Da Vinci Code.  I learned that he was an outcast due to the fact that his parents were from two classes of society and therefore forbidden to marry.  I learned that although the church contracted him to paint many paintings he never quite gave them exactly what they wanted, and he was asked to repaint at least one of his paintings.  He was brilliant.  Much more intelligent than I ever thought.  He was truly a Renascence man.