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The Smile
The Smile
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa's tale. A story of passion, loss, and, above all, love. — Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she's too plain. Then, on a visit to Florence, she catches the eye of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and falls ...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780142414927
ISBN-10: 0142414921
Publication Date: 9/3/2009
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Young Adult
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  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Speak
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This YA historical novel is about the girl who became the model for Leonardo Da Vinci's famous picture "Mona Lisa," and the customs, mores and politics of Florence in the time of the de Medicis and the monk-reformer Savonarola. In this novel, Mona Lisa is the daughter of a silk merchant. Although she is in love with one of the younger sons of the Medici family, her father marries her to a rich widower who commissions the portrait. Her middle-class life is contrasted that of with her best friend, daughter of one of her father's silk workers. Putting the story in the words of the young Mona Lisa makes the complicated political aspects less clear, in my opinion, but otherwise this is a well-written book.

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