Battle of The Books Questions - The Second Mrs. Gioconda
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| show | Salai
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| show | liar, thief, mule-head, glutton
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| When does Leonardo first mention Salai? | show 🗑
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| show | Salai stole the Turkish hide and sold it to a cobbler for 20 soldi and bought anise comfits.
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| What does Leonardo de Vinci leave for Salai in his will? | show 🗑
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| How did Salai solve the problem of the heat in Milan? | show 🗑
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| show | Leonardo
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| When Salai was caught stealing by Leonardo who did Salai think he was since he wore a long blue robe? | show 🗑
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| show | Greatest artist, greatest mind, and the greatest engineer at the court of Milan.
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| After Salai continued to lie about stealing Leonardo took one of Salai’s curls between his fingers and said what? | show 🗑
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| When Leonardo gave Salai a coin what did he do with it? | show 🗑
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| Leonardo discovered that Salai was a street urchin and son of a bootmaker so he asked Salai to do what? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Il Moro
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| The statue that Leonardo was making for Il Moro was a statue of? | show 🗑
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| Why did Leonardo often go to Il Moro’s horse stables? | show 🗑
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| Why did Duke Il lMoro want Leonardo to go to Pavia? | show 🗑
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| show | Pavia, a day’s journey
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| What makes Salai so fascinated when he watches Leonardo? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Milan
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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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| show | 16 yrs. Old
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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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| If Duke Ludvico did not have to impress his wife who was he trying to impress with the festivities Leonardo was planning? | show 🗑
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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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| Why did Il Moro not marry Isabella? | show 🗑
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| If you were a student of Leonardo he demanded that you were neat. | show 🗑
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| show | grace, like being cardinal to the Pope in Rome.
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| show | Leonardo kept his thoughts and his opinions to himself and his notebook.
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| show | the street of the armor-makers.
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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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| show | Mantua
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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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| show | Salai
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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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| Since the well proportioned dwarf was not Salai – who was it? | show 🗑
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| What could both Duchess Beatrice and Salai recognize and appreciate about each other? | show 🗑
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| show | Some scientific problems
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| show | A sense of fun
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| show | That you paint a face to show what is inside the head.
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| show | Magician
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| show | the very finest anise comfits for Duchess Beatrice.
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| Il Moro used Leonardo’s eyes to discover what? | show 🗑
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| Il Moro went with Beatrice to her favorite country home located where? | show 🗑
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| At Vigevano, Il Moro called on Leonardo to do what? | show 🗑
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| show | sit upon a horse
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| show | Ercole
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| show | Maximillion after the Holy Roman Emporer.
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| Who was the Spanish embroider who decorated the sleeve of Duchess Beatrice? | show 🗑
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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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| Now that Il Moro had grown to admire his wife Beatrice where did he send her and why? | show 🗑
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| When Beatrice became the ambassador and went to Venice who did she take with her? | show 🗑
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| What did Beatrice give all the ladies of Ferrara? | show 🗑
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| show | She wanted to hurt her and show her that she should not have neglected her poor, plain second daughter.
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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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| Now that Salai had stopped stealing money what was he stealing instead? | show 🗑
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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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| show | He needed Salai’s rudeness and irresponsibility.
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| What was Beatrice grateful to Leonardo for? | show 🗑
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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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| Why in the late summer of 1496 did Salai begin seeing Beatrice at the chapel of St. Marie delle Grazie daily? | show 🗑
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| When did Beatrice die? | show 🗑
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| show | across the Alps into Germany
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| In Isabella’s castle was her studio of the Grotto where she kept what? | show 🗑
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| show | A clavichord (musical instrument)
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| show | Isabella’s dog who died
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| show | Work from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci and a portrait of her.
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| When Leonardo arrived in Venice it had been how long since his last visit? | show 🗑
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| show | Michelangelo whom Leonardo did not get along with
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| show | Brother Pietro
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| show | The Journey of the Magi with animals and manger and all the stars in heaven and more importantly a portrait of his wife.
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| Why did Leonardo agree to do the portrait of the merchant’s wife? | show 🗑
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| show | Mr. Gioconda
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| show | Madonna Lisa
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