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Da Vinci’s Demons… TV does Renaissance-punk.

Here’s an interesting looking TV series from the creators of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Da Vinci’s Demons, which recasts Leonardo da Vinci in Wild Wild West mode – superhero/inventor/demon hunter. It’s certainly the first time some proper Renaissance-punk has got air-time on a major TV channel (if you discount the BBC’s CBBC kids series, Leonardo, which had a teen Leonardo doing some serious Scooby Doo-age).

There was also the novel Pasquale’s Angel by Paul J McAuley, which had a reclusive older da Vinci as the creator of a steampunkish industrial revolution a good few centuries earlier than actually happened. But then, books, who reads them now, right? (certainly few of the people in TV land)

Da Vinci's Demons... TV does Renaissance-punk.
Mr da Vinci, very early steampunk.

ColonelFrog

Colonel Frog is a long time science fiction and fantasy fan. He loves reading novels in the field, and he also enjoys watching movies (as well as reading lots of other genre books).

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