I, Mona Lisa
by Jeanne Kalogridis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780312341398 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780312341398 Global Overview for this book
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From back cover:
"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth by a murder, committed the year before I was born. -- from I, Mona Lisa
Florence, April 1478. The handsome Giuliano de'Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa.
More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, capptures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Giuliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrest that threatens her life.
Set against the drama of fifteenth-century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself."
"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth by a murder, committed the year before I was born. -- from I, Mona Lisa
Florence, April 1478. The handsome Giuliano de'Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa.
More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, capptures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Giuliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrest that threatens her life.
Set against the drama of fifteenth-century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself."
This book has been sitting on my shelf for far too long. Dropping off tomorrow at the Town's Book Give and Take. Hopefully it will travel and be loved.
