The dramatic possibilities are endless! DaVinci was a great scientific thinker as well as an artist, and interacted with so many important people of his era.

Plus, can you just see him parading around Florence with his beautiful models, all of them peacocking about in colorful silks and fabulous hairstyles?

The drama of the arrest by the Office of the Night? The dramatic revelation that the Florentine world was seething with homoerotic trysts?

But instead, we get some fictional foofaroo about a straight romance that never actually happened. Sigh.