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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

My da Vinci’s Girl - part 1

Lisa is a young and passionate girl longing for a life full of art and beauty, that being the daughter of a devotee of Savonarola, does not see how her life can change unless through marriage.

And for that, she is about to meet Lorenzo de Medici, the main matchmaker of the noble classes of Florence.

Lisa learns about the murder of Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Lorenzo de’ Medici in the Pazzi conspiracy. Guiliano’s murder casts a shadow, especially as one of the killers has not been found.

She later falls in love with Giuliano’s namesake, Lorenzo’s son Giuliano in the aftermath of Girolamo Savonarola’s uprising in the late 15th century.

Little does she know that is about to enter a world of conspiracy, and that will be immortalized by a great artist.

c. 1492

by mara sop