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My Da Vinci’s Girl - part 2

Lisa Gherardini have all her dreams crushed with the military coup of Florence and the expulsion of Medici Family. Without Giuliano, with her father be seing as a Medici ally, Lisa is arrested and to save her family she needs to marry with a man she doesn’t love.

Between in a net of conspiracy, with Florence taked by the Savonarola’s followers, she had her portraid painting in secret meetings with Leonardo da Vinci.

This is her dress to the wedding with Francesco del Giocondo, described in the book with spanish fashion sleeves drawned my the groom, as the traditions demands.

*spanish sleeves

c. 1495

from “I, Mona Lisa” by Jeanne Kalogridis

by mara sop