If you’re a fan of historical fiction, then Donna Jo Napoli‘s YA novel The Smile is for you. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Elisabetta, the girl later immortalized as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Monna Elisabetta hopes to marry for love, but knows she’s destined for an arranged marriage. As members of the lesser nobility in Florence, Elisabetta’s family needs her to marry well and she is bound by the limited role prescribed to her. But Elisabetta, unconventional and strong, meets a boy she can love, Guiliano de’ Medici. Against all odds and due to the introduction by her father’s famous friend, Leonardo da Vinci, Elisabetta meets the Medici family, the most powerful and wealthy family in Florence. She and the youngest son, Giuliano meet and fall in love. But can their love survive the violent political upheavals of the Renaissance and the overthrow of the Medici rule? In Napoli’s hands, the mysterious Mona Lisa smile is created from love, loss, poignancy and passion.
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on 1/29/2013
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