Battle of The Books Questions - The Second Mrs. Gioconda
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| show | Salai
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| What names does Leonardo da Vinci use when he refers to Salai? | show 🗑
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| show | he writes that Giacomo came to live with me on St. Mary Magdalene’s Day, 1490, at age 10.
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| How did Leonardo first discover that Salai was a thief? | show 🗑
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| What does Leonardo de Vinci leave for Salai in his will? | show 🗑
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| show | By thinking of something else like sweet things to eat like anise comfits.
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| When Salai was in Milan trying to get rich by stealing- who was the God-man who grabbed him from behind? | show 🗑
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| show | God
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| How did Leonardo da Vinci explain who he was? | show 🗑
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| show | What a pity that the dirt keeps the sunshine out of these locks. If they were washed Jason would mistake them for Golden Fleece.
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| When Leonardo gave Salai a coin what did he do with it? | show 🗑
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| show | cease being the son of a bootmaker and start being the apprentice of Leonardo da Vinci.
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| When Salai first came to Leonardo’s studio he was working on jobs for Duke Ludvico Sforza the ruler of? | show 🗑
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| Duke Ludvico Sforza was also called what? | show 🗑
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| The statue that Leonardo was making for Il Moro was a statue of? | show 🗑
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| show | So he could sketch horse and study them.
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| show | To consult with his architects about the dome for the cathedral.
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| What place does Leonardo ask Salai to travel with him to? | show 🗑
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| show | Because Leonardo is using his left hand.
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| show | the work of the devil.
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| Work done with the right hand is? | show 🗑
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| show | His eye and brain were joined to the muscles and told Leonardo what to do, not the devil.
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| show | Leonardo never accepted their silent invitations. He didn’t express his opinion because they might contradict him since he hadn’t read as many books as them.
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| show | that superstition was out and that survival meant reading Leonardo’s moods and supplying whatever color was needed.
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| The color that Leonardo carried in largest supply was? | show 🗑
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| After Leonardo and Salai stayed in Pavia the Duke Ludvico (Il Moro) called them back to where? | show 🗑
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| show | In a castle in Milan
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| show | In his castle sitting in a tub of water, and a lady was feeding him grapes.
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| What have the astrologers told Duke Ludvico? | show 🗑
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| What is Duke Ludvico asking Leonardo to do? | show 🗑
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| How old is the girl (Beatrice) Duke Ludvico is going to marry? | show 🗑
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| show | Unicorns and dragons.
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| Leonardo became for the time of preparation for the wedding of Duke Ludvico a combination of what? | show 🗑
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| show | So she could see everything that Leonardo had planned for her wedding.
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| show | Isabella (Beatrice’s sister) and Cecil Gallerani.
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| What did Salai love most of all? | show 🗑
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| show | After a ten year engagement.
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| Who did Il Moro want to marry? | show 🗑
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| show | The Duke of Ferrara had promised Isabella to Gonzaga, the son of the Duke of Mantua, that is why Il Moro was now going to marry her sister Beatrice instead.
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| show | grace, like being cardinal to the Pope in Rome.
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| Where did Leonarda keep his thoughts and opinions? | show 🗑
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| When Salai walked the streets inMilan his best street of all was what? | show 🗑
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| show | Duchess Leonora and her daughter Duchess Isabella had arrived.
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| While planning wedding festivities Leonardo included a play in which he designed the costumes and a revolving stage- the play was called? | show 🗑
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| Where is Duchess Leonora’s and Duchess Isabella’s home? | show 🗑
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| show | To paint a portrait of her, and also make a small sculpture of the young Christ.
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| Who did Duchess Isabella suggest pose for the small sculpture of the young Christ? | show 🗑
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| show | Because he stayed in Milan to look after his affairs, one of which was Cecilia Galerani.
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| show | Duchess Beatrice
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| show | Matello
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| show | A genuine sense of mischief
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| What did Salai need to consult with Leonardo about on the mountaintop? | show 🗑
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| show | A sense of fun
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| Leonardo de Vinci believed what about painting? | show 🗑
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| show | Magician
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| Salai stole Turkish hide from Leonardo, sold it and bought what? | show 🗑
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| show | his own wife
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| Il Moro went with Beatrice to her favorite country home located where? | show 🗑
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| show | Paint a picture of Beatrice whom he had fallen in love with.
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| Beatrice agreed to Leonardo painting a picture of her only if she could do what? | show 🗑
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| Beatrice and Il Moro had a son named? | show 🗑
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| show | Maximillion after the Holy Roman Emporer.
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| show | Sorba
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| show | Salai’s sister
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| show | Ponzone’s letter about someone named Columbus
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| show | The maker of musical instruments.
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| show | To Venice as his personal ambassador to make Venice friends with Milan
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| When Beatrice became the ambassador and went to Venice who did she take with her? | show 🗑
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| show | pearl rosaries
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| Why did Duchess Beatrice not want to impress her mother? | show 🗑
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| show | learn to live with it.
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| show | to paint the Lord’s Last Supper.
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| show | Leonardo’s ideas that he sketched and he would sell them to church artists.
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| show | His sister Dorotea and his father.
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| Who did Il Moro’s niece marry? | show 🗑
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| show | The best horse anyone had ever seen
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| Why did Leonardo put up with Salai’s stealing and selling his ideas? | show 🗑
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| show | Showing Il Moro the interesting whorl of leaves beneath the plain flower of Beatrice’s face and falling in love with her.
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| Beatrice and Il Moro had a second son named? | show 🗑
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| When Leonardo was painting the Last Supper he walked the streets of Milan looking for what? | show 🗑
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| Why did Salai not want to deliver a message to Portinari from Leonardo? | show 🗑
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| show | She was studying Leonardo’s painting of the Last Supper.
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| show | At age 22 after giving birth to a dead baby son
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| The French invasion came, and Il Moro and his children were forced to flee where? | show 🗑
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| show | her works of art
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| Lorenzo da Pavia designed what for Duchess Isabella? | show 🗑
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| Who was Aura? | show 🗑
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| Isabella was greedy and had two life goals – what were they? | show 🗑
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| show | 17 years
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| show | Michelangelo whom Leonardo did not get along with
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| After Isabella learned that Leonardo was ignoring her letters who did she hire to deliver her letters? | show 🗑
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| A merchant, Scusi, came to Salai to ask if Leonardo would do a wall-size painting of what? | show 🗑
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| Why did Leonardo agree to do the portrait of the merchant’s wife? | show 🗑
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| Who was the merchant who wanted to pay Leonardo for a portrait of his wife? | show 🗑
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| What was the merchant, Mr. Gioconda’s, wife’s name? | show 🗑
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