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Mona Lisa Intrigue - Rated
Apart from the historical accuracies aside this is an easy read once you get into it. The first few chapters, which set the story for the rest of the book I found a little confusing to how they related to the rest of the book (although this becomes clear towards the end.) If you have any love of Italy this is good book as you can visualize Florence with the characters wandering through.
As put by the medici history gone balls! - Rated
After reading The Borgia Bride, I was excited to read this and the earlier comment about having researched the Medici family, not the historical bridge ...... what a load of 14c balls the author has not research anything past basic knowlage of that era, BUT APART FROM THAT WHAT A WONDERFUL ESCAPE! and to the person who mentioned the bridge oh dear that you reconised the bridge was not right in it! charecters are important including who they were married to and family!!!
Loved it. - Rated
Quite simply, I adored this book, I couldn't put it down and within 2 days of recieving it, I had finished it. It made me cry with laughter and sadness.
It was beautiful, Simply beautiful.
extremely enjoyable - Rated
I got a taste for Jeanne Kalogridis after reading The Borgia Bride so I bought this book on the strength of that. The story follows the life of a young girl living in Florence during the late 1400/early 1500's. While the title and blurb gives the impression that the whole story revolves around Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci, it doesn't. It follows her through her first marriage with a man she loved and second marriage with a man she hates and her involvement in the secret plans to bring back an outlawed ruler. There are many twist, some that are quite expected and others that I would never have guessed. While based on fact this story is very very far off being a non-fiction story as there are crucial errors. Despite this I found the book extremely enjoyable.
Good story, poor research! - Rated
I read the book in quickly and found the plot well constructed and the characters well portrayed. The writing swept me along and I was keen to find out how the story would be resolved. Jeanne Kalogridis has taken a very difficult time in Florentine history and has woven a fictional thread about it that simplifies and makes understandable the politics of the time. I thought it a great shame that whilst she probably spent a lot of time researching Savanorola and the Medici family she did not spend as much time on the history of Florence. The Santa Trinita bridge is a main route used by many characters in the book to get from one side of Florence to the other. The bridge was built between 1567 to 1569; the action of the book starts in 1478! Being aware of this made me wonder how accurate the rest of the historical backdrop was. I am not nitpicking; I think if you set out to write a book using people from history then the least you should do is to get your facts right. If you like a good story, with good twists and turns, a love interest, a bit of history and famous artists then you would probably enjoy this. If you want historical accuracy then I think you should avoid this.
