They Found Mona Lisa’s Body or Did They?
January 19th, 2007Beware! Another hoax is spreading fast.
Some Giuseppe Pallanti, a high school economics teacher from Florence who presumably spends his spare time writing books about the Mona Lisa and is most respectfully described as an “armature historian” had recently uncovered a death certificate that shows that a woman named Lisa Gherardini, died on July 15, 1542, in Florence and is buried in a convent in the center of the town. He also states she was a mother of five, plus a sixth who was adopted and lived near Basilica of San Lorenzo, which is near the Convent of St. Ursula, where supposedly she is buried. A story goes on and he also claims that one of her daughters became a nun and lived in that same convent. Pallanti said, that a husband of Lisa Gherardini in his will said that after his death, she would go and live with her daughter, and this fact eventually led him to search through documents there and discover her death certificate.
So far so good but how it relates to the world’s most famously enigmatic woman, Mona Lisa you ask.
Well, it seems Lisa Gherardini married a rich silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. In Italy the most famous painting of Leonardo is also known as “La Gioconda” but why? read more »
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