Aidan Turner plays Leonardo da Vinci in the series, which is to be broadcast in Britain next month. Each episode revolves around one of Leonardo’s masterpiecesA new TV biopic of Leonardo da Vinci starring the Irish actor Aidan Turner has been accused of playing fast and loose with the history of Italy. Leonardo, which started broadcasting in Italy this week and arrives on British screens next month, invents a murder accusation against the artist and gives him a made-up muse played by Matilda de Angelis, an emerging star. SponsoredItalian audiences did not seem to mind the creative input, giving the first two episodes massive ratings, but the Turin daily La Stampa was far more sniffy, calling the show “pop” history. “It is difficult to distinguish between truth and fantasy and that is a task that an average TV viewer should not be asked to carry out,” fumed the newspaper,

Source: The Times March 26, 2021 00:03 UTC