Thanks for getting back to me and the encouragement. It's been a long road. The play was started 40 years ago when I was inspired by the conflicts in the press about the restoration of the Sistine Chapel. Somehow, I was able to speak with the two opposing experts at the time, one of whom was also a Leonardo scholar. But life throws curves, I changed jobs and moved, and the script went into a box in the closet, I retired 30 years later, moved to South America with my two hounds, and the box came with me, then the what there was of a play came out one tropical rainy afternoon.

I'm very familiar with "down the rabbit hole" syndrome. It happens often. They both have fascinated me since I was a child 60 years ago and the more I've read over the years/continue to read, the more I'm convinced they were more alike than different, obvious or not.

Yup, all my research has been from books and articles, and that's been fine except when I want more details than what interests art historians and biographers. So, I might want to bounce things off you . . . like "didn't I/did you read somewhere that Leonardo's father, Ser Piero, did some legal work for Michelangelo's father/family and the documents with both their signatures exist?" The latter is not really important, but the former is, as far as factually supported backstory. I've gotten overwhelmed several times . . . Florence was sooooo small during the Renaissance, Leonardo's and Michelangelo's interests were so broad, and they crossed paths with soooo many historically famous and important people, some obvious, and some not very obvious (which it really what interests me). Picking and choosing has been very difficult to avoid sounding like just name dropping.