The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli6/23/2023 It is the young Guiliano de’Medici who calls Elisabetta Monna Lisa and remembers her smile. The author provides rich details of life and events during the Renaissance, as well as some of the very real people from that era.Īlthough he is the heir to the most powerful family in Florence and the two fall in love, Elisabetta’s father finds a more suitable match for his daughter in his new wife’s brother-in-law, another silk merchant. The romantic in me would have preferred a different ending, but I give the author credit for faithfully providing an ending that was more realistic and fit with the period. Through this deeply personal story, Napoli paints a magnificent portrait of the Italian Renaissance, both tragic and triumphant. All in all, a fairly reasonable depiction of life in those times.
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