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I suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and I had no recourse when they took my boy away from me. I had no rights, no prospects, no future. Everyone believed I was ruined. But no one knew the secrets of my own childhood, nor could they ever have imagined the dangerous and heretical scheme I would devise to protect and watch over my remarkable son as he grew in to manhood. Some might call me a liar, since all I describe would be impossible for a woman of my station. But that is where my design unfolds, and I am finally ready to reveal it. They call me Caterina. And this is my story.
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"Maxwell re-creates Renaissance Italy in splendid detail…the setting and known events of the artist's life are meticulously rendered."
Publishers Weekly
"A glorious novel of Leonardo da Vinci and his courageous, passionate mother."
Sandra Worth, author of The King's Daughter
"[An] exquisite gem of a novel…Signora da Vinci is a tour de force celebration of one woman's unquenchable ardor for knowledge and of a secret world that historical fiction readers rarely see."
C. W. Gortner, author of The Last Queen