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Battle 2
Battle of The Books Questions - The Second Mrs. Gioconda
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gian Giacomo de’ Caprotti was called? | Salai |
| What names does Leonardo da Vinci use when he refers to Salai? | liar, thief, mule-head, glutton |
| When does Leonardo first mention Salai? | he writes that Giacomo came to live with me on St. Mary Magdalene’s Day, 1490, at age 10. |
| How did Leonardo first discover that Salai was a thief? | Salai stole the Turkish hide and sold it to a cobbler for 20 soldi and bought anise comfits. |
| What does Leonardo de Vinci leave for Salai in his will? | ½ of his garden outside the walls of Milan along with a house on the property that Salai built –this was for his services. |
| How did Salai solve the problem of the heat in Milan? | By thinking of something else like sweet things to eat like anise comfits. |
| When Salai was in Milan trying to get rich by stealing- who was the God-man who grabbed him from behind? | Leonardo |
| When Salai was caught stealing by Leonardo who did Salai think he was since he wore a long blue robe? | God |
| How did Leonardo da Vinci explain who he was? | Greatest artist, greatest mind, and the greatest engineer at the court of Milan. |
| After Salai continued to lie about stealing Leonardo took one of Salai’s curls between his fingers and said what? | What a pity that the dirt keeps the sunshine out of these locks. If they were washed Jason would mistake them for Golden Fleece. |
| When Leonardo gave Salai a coin what did he do with it? | He told Leonardo that he was going to buy his sainted father enough leather for a pair of boots. |
| Leonardo discovered that Salai was a street urchin and son of a bootmaker so he asked Salai to do what? | cease being the son of a bootmaker and start being the apprentice of Leonardo da Vinci. |
| When Salai first came to Leonardo’s studio he was working on jobs for Duke Ludvico Sforza the ruler of? | Milan |
| Duke Ludvico Sforza was also called what? | Il Moro |
| The statue that Leonardo was making for Il Moro was a statue of? | Il Moro’s father |
| Why did Leonardo often go to Il Moro’s horse stables? | So he could sketch horse and study them. |
| Why did Duke Il lMoro want Leonardo to go to Pavia? | To consult with his architects about the dome for the cathedral. |
| What place does Leonardo ask Salai to travel with him to? | Pavia, a day’s journey |
| What makes Salai so fascinated when he watches Leonardo? | Because Leonardo is using his left hand. |
| Salai’s father had told him that work done with the left hand is? | the work of the devil. |
| Work done with the right hand is? | work of God |
| Leonardo explained that the devil took no part in his work. He explained to Salai what told him how to do things? | His eye and brain were joined to the muscles and told Leonardo what to do, not the devil. |
| When Leonardo met other famous men who studied at the University of Pavia why did he not talk much? | 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. |
| In Salai’s life at Leonardo’s studio, Salai learned what? | that superstition was out and that survival meant reading Leonardo’s moods and supplying whatever color was needed. |
| The color that Leonardo carried in largest supply was? | Laughter |
| After Leonardo and Salai stayed in Pavia the Duke Ludvico (Il Moro) called them back to where? | Milan |
| Where did Duke Ludvico live? | In a castle in Milan |
| When Leonardo and Salai went to meet Duke Ludvico where was he? | In his castle sitting in a tub of water, and a lady was feeding him grapes. |
| What have the astrologers told Duke Ludvico? | That January is a good time to get married. |
| What is Duke Ludvico asking Leonardo to do? | supervise the festivities for his marriage. |
| How old is the girl (Beatrice) Duke Ludvico is going to marry? | 16 yrs. Old |
| For the wedding Leonardo designed cakes and pastries in shapes of what? | Unicorns and dragons. |
| Leonardo became for the time of preparation for the wedding of Duke Ludvico a combination of what? | magician and housewife. |
| Why did Salai tell Leonardo that he hoped Duke Ludvico’s wife had more than one head? | So she could see everything that Leonardo had planned for her wedding. |
| If Duke Ludvico did not have to impress his wife who was he trying to impress with the festivities Leonardo was planning? | Isabella (Beatrice’s sister) and Cecil Gallerani. |
| What did Salai love most of all? | Good gossip second to anise comfits. |
| After how many years of Leonardo planning the Duke’s wedding did the wedding actually take place? | After a ten year engagement. |
| Who did Il Moro want to marry? | Beatrice’s sister, Isabella d’Este. |
| Why did Il Moro not marry Isabella? | 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. |
| If you were a student of Leonardo he demanded that you were neat. | |
| In Milan to be a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci was to be touched with what? | grace, like being cardinal to the Pope in Rome. |
| Where did Leonarda keep his thoughts and opinions? | Leonardo kept his thoughts and his opinions to himself and his notebook. |
| When Salai walked the streets inMilan his best street of all was what? | the street of the armor-makers. |
| Why did Salai hear a hundred trumpets in the streets of Milan? | Duchess Leonora and her daughter Duchess Isabella had arrived. |
| While planning wedding festivities Leonardo included a play in which he designed the costumes and a revolving stage- the play was called? | Paradise |
| Where is Duchess Leonora’s and Duchess Isabella’s home? | Mantua |
| What two things did Duchess Isabella ask of Leonardo de Vinci when she came to visit him? | To paint a portrait of her, and also make a small sculpture of the young Christ. |
| Who did Duchess Isabella suggest pose for the small sculpture of the young Christ? | Salai |
| Why did Il Moro ship his young wife from one castle to another? | Because he stayed in Milan to look after his affairs, one of which was Cecilia Galerani. |
| Who referred to Salai as a well proportioned dwarf? | Duchess Beatrice |
| Since the well proportioned dwarf was not Salai – who was it? | Matello |
| What could both Duchess Beatrice and Salai recognize and appreciate about each other? | A genuine sense of mischief |
| What did Salai need to consult with Leonardo about on the mountaintop? | Some scientific problems |
| What original quality did Duchess Beatrice have to give her husband Il Moro that Cecilia did not ? | A sense of fun |
| Leonardo de Vinci believed what about painting? | That you paint a face to show what is inside the head. |
| Salai was convinced that Beatrice was a? | Magician |
| Salai stole Turkish hide from Leonardo, sold it and bought what? | the very finest anise comfits for Duchess Beatrice. |
| Il Moro used Leonardo’s eyes to discover what? | his own wife |
| Il Moro went with Beatrice to her favorite country home located where? | Vigevano |
| At Vigevano, Il Moro called on Leonardo to do what? | Paint a picture of Beatrice whom he had fallen in love with. |
| Beatrice agreed to Leonardo painting a picture of her only if she could do what? | sit upon a horse |
| Beatrice and Il Moro had a son named? | Ercole |
| Beatrice and Il Moro changed their son, Ercole’s, name to what? | Maximillion after the Holy Roman Emporer. |
| Who was the Spanish embroider who decorated the sleeve of Duchess Beatrice? | Sorba |
| Who was Dorotea? | Salai’s sister |
| What letter did Duchess Isabella bring to Leonardo to his attention? | Ponzone’s letter about someone named Columbus |
| Who was Lorenzo da Pavia? | The maker of musical instruments. |
| Now that Il Moro had grown to admire his wife Beatrice where did he send her and why? | To Venice as his personal ambassador to make Venice friends with Milan |
| When Beatrice became the ambassador and went to Venice who did she take with her? | Her mother and an entourage of 500. |
| What did Beatrice give all the ladies of Ferrara? | pearl rosaries |
| Why did Duchess Beatrice not want to impress her mother? | She wanted to hurt her and show her that she should not have neglected her poor, plain second daughter. |
| Duchess Beatrice learns that the only way to conquer an unhappy past is to what? | learn to live with it. |
| Besides Leonardo being asked by Il Moro to finish the horse he also asked him to do what? | to paint the Lord’s Last Supper. |
| Now that Salai had stopped stealing money what was he stealing instead? | Leonardo’s ideas that he sketched and he would sell them to church artists. |
| When Salai sold Leonardo’s sketches and sold them who did he share the money with? | His sister Dorotea and his father. |
| Who did Il Moro’s niece marry? | Maximillion, the Holy Roman Emporer |
| What did Leonardo finish with bronze? | The best horse anyone had ever seen |
| Why did Leonardo put up with Salai’s stealing and selling his ideas? | He needed Salai’s rudeness and irresponsibility. |
| What was Beatrice grateful to Leonardo for? | Showing Il Moro the interesting whorl of leaves beneath the plain flower of Beatrice’s face and falling in love with her. |
| Beatrice and Il Moro had a second son named? | Francesco |
| When Leonardo was painting the Last Supper he walked the streets of Milan looking for what? | faces that could represent St. Peter or St. John or Thomas or James. |
| Why did Salai not want to deliver a message to Portinari from Leonardo? | Salai had sold one of Leonardo’s sketches to an artist employed by him. |
| Why in the late summer of 1496 did Salai begin seeing Beatrice at the chapel of St. Marie delle Grazie daily? | She was studying Leonardo’s painting of the Last Supper. |
| When did Beatrice die? | At age 22 after giving birth to a dead baby son |
| The French invasion came, and Il Moro and his children were forced to flee where? | across the Alps into Germany |
| In Isabella’s castle was her studio of the Grotto where she kept what? | her works of art |
| Lorenzo da Pavia designed what for Duchess Isabella? | A clavichord (musical instrument) |
| Who was Aura? | Isabella’s dog who died |
| Isabella was greedy and had two life goals – what were they? | Work from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci and a portrait of her. |
| When Leonardo arrived in Venice it had been how long since his last visit? | 17 years |
| When Leonardo arrived in Venice he was appointed to a committee to decide where to place the statue of David that which sculpture had completed for the city of Florence? | Michelangelo whom Leonardo did not get along with |
| After Isabella learned that Leonardo was ignoring her letters who did she hire to deliver her letters? | Brother Pietro |
| A merchant, Scusi, came to Salai to ask if Leonardo would do a wall-size painting of what? | The Journey of the Magi with animals and manger and all the stars in heaven and more importantly a portrait of his wife. |
| Why did Leonardo agree to do the portrait of the merchant’s wife? | There was something haunting about her looks – he would complete the portrait of Isabella using the merchant’s wife’s face |
| Who was the merchant who wanted to pay Leonardo for a portrait of his wife? | Mr. Gioconda |
| What was the merchant, Mr. Gioconda’s, wife’s name? | Madonna Lisa |
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