Konigsburg has written books that I adore, but this isn't one of them. It was interesting but not riveting.

Introduction
In Class, Ms. Paddock (our Social Studies teacher) read us a book called The Second Mrs. Gioconda, written by E.L. Konigsburg. The genre of this book is Historical fiction. Simon & Schuster published this book in 1975. The book consisted of 140 pictureless pages. The chapters were nameless. Part of our daily listening routine was to take notes as the teacher was reading and sketch a picture. This picture would be about the central part of the plot in each chapter. After finishing each chapter, as a class, we would come up with an appropriate name for the titles. All of this would go into a booklet provided on the first day of reading.

Novel Summary
This book is about the life of a boy named Salai. He was a thief who ran into an incident with Leonardo da Vinci. After that, Leonardo da Vinci took the Young salai into an apprenticeship for free. The two of them become incredibly close friends. They travel together and meet new people, and make new friends. Salai becomes exceptionally close with the duke's wife, And in an unfortunate series of events, we get to meet the Second Mrs. Gioconda. Throughout this novel, we see Salai grow and learn, especially from his old ways. This Mostly happens in the Court of Milan, and some other major City-States of Italy.

My Opinion
In my opinion, this book is an excellent historical novel for young adults. It has the necessary knowledge for readers and makes it fun. I believe this book is successful. By that, I mean, this book succeeded in teaching us about the Renaissance and its history in an exciting way. It helped grade eight (8) students understand a broad concept of hierarchy, the Second Mrs. Gioconda taught us about the broad and long topic, in a way which made it seem like we were taking time out of class. It also succeeded in teaching us about people who lived throughout the Renaissance era. This memorization of facts and knowledge about historical figures would never get stuck in our minds with a textbook.


Analysis and Evaluation
I feel that this book deserves a four-star rating. This is because the book is useful in educating the reader about Renaissance knowledge. This book is also effective because it has a powerful and emotional tone. It makes the reader feel emotion towards every chapter. Whether those emotions are glee, anxiety, sadness and a feeling of satisfaction sense of surprise. I believe that the author achieved their purpose, which was to inform the reader of what happened during the Renaissance. Of course, this book is historical fiction; therefore, some things may be exaggerated; for the most part, it gave the reader a good knowledge of this topic. A strength of this novel would be the way the author made readers feel certain emotions to individual chapters. This immensely helped the novel give off an exciting aura. Another strength of this book would be the part at the end where we meet the Second Mrs. Gioconda. It had great detail and was filled with extreme emotions of surprise and an exciting feeling. A weakness of this book would be the parts where the author seemed to put in filler lines or even filler chapters.
A good example of this would be in chapter eleven when the duke's wife (Beatrice) and Salai entered the silversmith's shop and offer fish and ducats for an item of the shop owners’. This part of the book was extremely bland, with little to no detail at all! I was very disappointed with this chapter; it is why I gave this book four stars.

Conclusion
In conclusion, I feel that this book was very well written. Although some parts of this novel were a little bland, I must say that the way the author wrote this book, changed my view of the Renaissance. This novel helped me memorize names and facts that a textbook would never help me memorize. This novel left me with the impression of a new worldview. Although some may say it is just another book, I say that it is an experience of historical knowledge. As a reviewer, I must tell you (the reader) that you should take the time to read this book!

,,Discretul, înaltul, frumosul, elegant-îmbrăcatul Leonardo n-a găsit nimic pe gustul lui la scundul, urâtul, neglijentul, slobodul la gură Michelangelo." Interesantă viziunea asupra Renașterii, o poveste cuceritoare despre frumusețea interioară ce se răsfrânge asupra chipului.

Meh. Somewhat interesting but mostly boring. The best part was the scene with Beatrice and Salai buying a saltpeter in disguise and counting on the smelly fish. Aside from that it was just kinda blah.

WHAT IK THIS IS A KIDS BOOK BUT THE RIGHT PERSON WRONG TIME TROPE HERE IS SO SAD

E.L Konigsburg was an American writer of children’s books and young adult fiction. She has won two Newbery Medals. The Second Mrs. Gioconda was her eighth book, published in the United States by Simon and Schuster in 1975 with 140 pages. The Second Mrs Gioconda is a historical fiction novel about Leonardo Da Vinci and why he had painted the Mona Lisa. This book is from a third-person perspective, but following the thoughts of Salai, the main character.

My review is a 3 out of 5 because I liked the ending most but I Also liked all of the plot twists that were happening. But at the end of the book was the best part because we realized at the end of the book Salai was mr. Gioconda the whole time. The people that I would refer to this book to are the people that like historical fiction books.

I'm not finished this reading, but I've read it before. I know I enjoyed it, but I must say, I've already been distracted by some of the ill-chosen contemporary words that are jarring and out of place in historical fiction. I don't want to hear anyone using the word "guys" in Renaissance Italy...

This book sounded so intriguing when I found it at a used book sale; it is written by a Newbery author, and it is historical fiction about the events that led to Leonardo da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa. There are three main characters in this story: Leonardo da Vinci; one of Leonardo’s apprentices, Salai; and Beatrice, who was married to the Duke of Milan and became good friends with Salai and Leonardo. Out of these main characters, Leonardo is the only one I found likable. Salai is dishonest and shady throughout the story. And Beatrice lived a privileged life with privileged-life problems, and that doesn’t interest me. However, reading about Leonardo’s projects and work habits was fascinating, especially his work on The Last Supper. This short book gave me a greater understanding of Leonardo da Vinci and how the art scene worked in 15th century Europe. I’m still puzzled by Leonardo’s choice of companions, though....

I felt kind of dumb reading this, like was I supposed to get more out of it? There wasn't really a plot but I also didn't feel like there was a moral or a theme to get out of it either. I don't know about this one.

This was an interesting story! I liked the combination of Leonardo, Salai and Beatrice. A good book to introduce Leonardo to independent readers. It tells them that while he was a genius, he was still human. He had faults, enjoyed life and created beauty.

This was the most boring, tangential story about the painting of the Mona Lisa that could have possibly been written. But my daughter loved it so I guess that counts for something?

A fun read aloud to the kids. I love this author but this was a new book for me.