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Notes:

1. The Da Vinci Code is all about puzzles, problem-solving, decoding clues, etc.
2. The Da Vinci Code, ostenisbly, is based on the works of Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Leonardo Da Vinci was perhaps the prototypical example of a “Renaissance Man”, Universal Man, or Polymath
4. Renaissance humanism:
   

   The over-riding goal of humanists, who may be said to have valued the witnesses of reason and the evidence of the senses in reaching the truth over the Christian values of humility, introspection, and passivity, or “meekness” that had dominated European thought in the previous centuries, was to become eloquent in rhetoric. Beauty, a popular topic, was held to represent a deep inner virtue and value, and an essential element in the path towards God. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of many Latin and Greek texts.

5. Leonardo was also considered to be a “master” artist.
6. “Mastermind” is a type in the Keirsey psychological system which corresponds to INTJ in the Meyers-Briggs system

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