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The Woman Behind the Smile: Who Was Really Mona Lisa?
Jan. 22, 2007 — -- Her name was Mona Lisa.
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She was a beloved wife and mother of five who lived in Italy 500 years ago. For some, the best-known smile in the whole world belongs to her.
Following 25 years of searching Florence's city archives, high school teacher Giuseppe Pallanti located this unknown and mysterious woman's burial site, giving her a life story and a new identity.
He concluded that Giorgio Vasari, the architect of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, might not have been wrong when he wrote that Lisa Del Giocondo, also known as Mona Lisa, was Leonardo da Vinci's "La Gioconda."
"I challenge anyone to explain to me the need for the most famous architect of his time, a man of success and considerable fortune, to invent a fabricated story knowing that he would have to face a whole town full of living relatives of Mona Lisa," Pallanti said.
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