The smile

By Donna Jo Napoli

Subjects: Historical, History, Mona Lisa (Leonardo, da Vinci), Italy, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Florence (italy), fiction, Renaissance, fiction, Renaissance, Leonardo, da vinci, 1452-1519, fiction

Description: In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.