Looks like Leonardo Da Vinci's model for the Mona Lisa was a silk merchant's wife in Florence. The head of Germany's Heidelberg University library announced that they found a book with notes written by a Florentine official. The notes identify the woman as Lisa del Giacondo. She with the cryptic smile was the wife of wealthy trader Francesco del Giacondo. One Da Vinci mystery solved for good?

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