WHY, PEOPLE ASK, why did Leonardo da Vinci choose to paint the portrait of the second wife of an unimportant Florentine merchant when dukes and duchesses all over Italy and the King of France as well, were all begging for a portrait by his hand?
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Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.
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Fiction, Large type books, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Leonardo, da vinci, 1452-1519, fiction, Italy, history, fiction, Fiction in English, Renaissance, Mona Lisa (Leonardo, da Vinci), Historical fiction, Architecture, fiction, Europe, fictionPeople
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Beatrice consort of Lodovico Sforza il Moro, Duke of Milan (1475-1497), Andrea Salai (ca. 1480-ca. 1524)Places
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2005, Simon & Schuster
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2003, Aladdin Paperbacks
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The Second Mrs. Giaconda
October 1999, Tandem Library
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Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1975.
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