Signora Da Vinci
- ISBN-10
- 0451225805
- ISBN-13
- 9780451225801
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 442
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Robin Maxwell
Description
A fictional portrait of Caterina, mother of Leonardo da Vinci, follows the life of this adventurer and alchemist from her turbulent early years, through the birth of her illegitimate son Leonardo at the age of fifteen, to the dangerous and heretical scheme she devises to protect her extraordinary son. Original.
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