Robin Maxwell. (2009). Signora da Vinci: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Robin Maxwell. 2009. Signora Da Vinci: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.

Robin Maxwell, Signora Da Vinci: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

Robin Maxwell. Signora Da Vinci: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

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Caterina was fifteen years old when she fell in love with a man much above her station. The daughter of a humble village apothecary, she was considered unmarriageable by her lover's wealthy and ambitious family. She had no recourse when they took her child away from her, leaving her bereft and rejected by society as a "fallen woman."

But Caterina had always hidden a part of herself from society. Unlike most women of that time, she had been educated since childhood—not only in her father's medicinal arts, but in Greek philosophy and pagan mysticism, considered heretical by the church.

Now, to be close to her son, she would carry that deceit further than she had ever imagined, taking up a new life under a dangerous new identity. In Florence at the height of Italy's cultural Renaissance, Caterina would discover undreamed-of opportunities and freedoms—and her gifted son, Leonardo, would change the world forever.

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     November 24, 2008
     Maxwell (Mademoiselle Boleyn
     ) re-creates Renaissance Italy in splendid detail, but fails to deliver a convincing narrative in her tale of da Vinci's mother, Caterina, an apothecary's daughter who is schooled from an early age in the art of alchemy. At 14, Caterina falls in love with Piero da Vinci, an older man above her station. After he promises to marry her, they make love, and the seed of the great artist is planted. But their plans doesn't work out: Piero's family forbids him from marrying Caterina and later takes baby Leonardo from his unwed mother. Leonardo is not treated well by the da Vinci family, but in his occasional visits to the apothecary shop, precocious Leonardo thrives. Soon his skillful drawings compel Caterina to seek an artist's apprenticeship for Leonardo in Florence, where he matures into a highly accomplished artist. Caterina misses him so terribly that she plans a hard-to-imagine reunion that changes her life in unbelievable ways. While the setting and known events of the artist's life are meticulously rendered, the plot relies too much on suspension of disbelief.

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But Caterina had always kept a part of herself hidden from society. In defiance of what was expected for girls in the 15th century, her father had chosen to educate her—not only in medicinal arts, but in Greek philosophy, pagan mysticism, and the secret art of alchemy, all considered heretical by the church.

Now, to be close to her son, she would carry that deceit farther than she had ever imagined, taking up a new life under a dangerous new identity. In Florence at the height of Italy's cultural Renaissance, Caterina would discover undreamed-of opportunities and freedoms—and her gifted son, Leonardo...

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