Description: Leonardo da Vinci, taking a break from the frustrating portrait of a rich man's mistress and her accursed cat, hears something... something small somewhere in his studio. After much searching, he discovers a bizarre little animal hiding in a corner of his studio. All his friends are impressed with his new pet, and Machiavelli has great ideas about selling it for top lira. But soon the rightful owner of the creature appears: Mario, a young boy from the faraway future, taking a time-travel vacation in 2523. For fear of influencing history and the future, he has vowed not to tell Leonardo-not to tell anyone-what the years ahead hold for science, for medicine, for art. Will Mario reveal too much? Will he change the great Leonardo da Vinci, for better or for worse...and how will a "different" Leonardo da Vinci change the world? And, of course, how does that strange ermine end up in the painting?

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