Heidelberg University library in Germany has announced that the identity of the Mona Lisa has been confirmed. According to marginalia in a book owned by Agostino Vespuccui, a friend of da Vinci, the subject of the portrait is Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine merchant Franceso del Giocondo.
The article from Spiegel Online can be found here.
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Still think it was some Lady of the Evening that he frequented...
How much damage did you do to the car when you introduced it to the telephone pole?
Oh, and more importantly, how much damage to yerself?
No damage to myself, but $3,000 worth to the car. Mostly the bumper, wheel well, headlight, windshield washer fluid reservoir.
And who's to say she didn't have a night job doing just that?
Ouch. Glad yer okay, though.
Probably did, but I still think they're looking a little too far up in the social echelon, knowing da Vinci...
That's about 3 times more than my car is worth (and about 6,000 times more than Mona would've made in a night). Glad you're ok.
I don't know. If Mona was really the wife of a merchant she could probably command a decent wage.
What they don't mention is that what her husband was selling was her...
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