In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.
year: 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: medici, lorenzo de', 1449-1492, fiction, bembo, bernardo, 1433-1519, leonardo, da vinci, 1452-1519, benci, ginevra de', 1457-1521, courts and courtiers, fiction, italy, history, 1268-1492, fiction, milan (italy), to 1535