<![CDATA[The Second Mrs. Gioconda]]>

false 77703545 316102 4537 1416903429 9781416903420 41 <![CDATA[The Second Mrs. Gioconda]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165445984m/4537.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165445984s/4537.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4537.The_Second_Mrs_Gioconda 3.59 258 <CENTER>THE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME
AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH
A YOUNG DUTCHESS WHOSE PLAIN FACE BELIES HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL
Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile -- why Leonardo da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand?
Only a master storyteller like two-time Newberry Medal-winner E.L. Konigsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous painting of all time.

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