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I, Mona Lisa
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I, Mona Lisa (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Jeanne Kalogridis (Author) (edit contributors)

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“My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa.  My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born…”   Florence , April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de’ Medici is brutally assassinated in... read more

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  • “Things that happened many years ago often seem close and nearby to the present, and many things that happened recently seem as ancient as the bygone days of youth.”
    ----Leonardo da Vinci
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  • A Conversation with Jeanne Kalogridis •
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  • And as an only child, I was well aware of the power I possessed; I whined and pleaded pitifully until my reluctant mother yielded.
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  • I was intrigued. My parents loved each other, but had never been happy. And I realized that they had never discussed my stars with me.
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  • Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, now Pope Alexander VI, dared to take up residence in the Vatican with his three illegitimate children: Cesare, Lucrezia, and Jofre.
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My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini, though to acquaintances I am known simply as Madonna Lisa, and to those of the common class, Monna Lisa.

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Chapters I to LXXI

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  1. Jeanne Kalogridis (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0312341393
Page Count: 544

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