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St. Martin's Griffin
November 2006
On Sale: October 30, 2006
544 pages
ISBN: 0312341393
EAN: 9780312341398
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Romance Historical
"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 Florence's magnificent Duomo. The
shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from
the most renowned artists like 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, captures the heart of
Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, 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 secrets that threatens her life.
Set against the drama of 15th 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.
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