For more than five hundred years people have been puzzled by the mysterious smile of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. It's not surprising that Leonardo left such a riddle. All his life he adored secrets.
As a young boy, Leonardo was well known for playing pranks and telling jokes. His questions about the mysteries of nature stumped even his teachers. When he grew up, Leonardo still liked to keep people guessing. In his famous notebooks he wrote everything backward! Today people are amazed at Leonardo's ingenious inventions and awed by his masterpieces. And they are still wondering about many of his secrets.
Letizia Galli brings out the playful as well as the mysterious side of Leonardo da Vinci in this homage to the great Renaissance figure.
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