"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 bornβ¦" Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificen
I, Mona Lisa
β Scribed by Kalogridis, Jeanne
- Book ID
- 108292719
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 313 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312341398
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