Category Archives: Florence. Italy

THE ‘MONA LISA’… ARTFUL or POSSESSED? … THE NINE-TENTHS RULE

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Is the ‘Mona Lisa’ beguiling or smiling? Alluring or obscuring? Devious or mischievous? Is she artful or possessed? In my fictional account of her life, ‘LISABETTA – a stolen glance’, she is all of the above. POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS OF … Continue reading →

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AUTISM, SENTIENT BIRDS, and the GHOST of a PRINCIPESSA

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A MYSTICAL ROMANCE of YOUNG LOVE and OLD SOULS Delphi Sharpe, an autistic teenage orphan with the extrasensory ability to converse with birds and paintings, has a tenuous grip on reality. After she falls in love with a boy in … Continue reading →

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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Love survives five-hundred years of dust to rekindle the bittersweet romance between the ghost of Sandro Botticelli and a retired art history professor. As a teenager in 1967, I’d been the poster girl for romantic dreamers in love with love. … Continue reading →

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‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ … WORDS TO AMUSE THE MOUTH

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

LISA IS A BIG GIRL… She can speak for herself! “My name, Lisabetta Buti was an affront to my existence. I was Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved kid-sister, his assistant and apprentice, and the mother he was denied. We were born … Continue reading →

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A TASTE OF INDIGO

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A STORY OF YOUNG LOVE AND OLD SOULS When the extrasensory abilities of Delphi Sharpe, an autistic girl who converses with paintings and birds, are transplanted into the circuits of an android designed to retrieve famous works of art lost … Continue reading →

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THE ‘MONA’LOGUE

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Veronica Knox

For anyone who wonders if it’s true that writers’ characters can get inside an author’s head, the answer is… absolutely. Personally, I welcome such invasions because there are iffy times when my muse and I are at complete odds. “SPEAK … Continue reading →

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SCIENCE-FRICTION VS. ‘ART-OFFICIAL’ INTELLIGENCE

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Veronica Knox

These days, life is a creepy puzzle. Who knew? Turns out there are aliens among us – some too small to see. But some have always been larger than life… I’m looking at you, LEO! WHEN GENRES AREN’T US … … Continue reading →

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CHARACTERS DYING TO TELL THEIR TALES

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Veronica Knox

Presenting three of my artful characters dying to speak: LISABETTA BUTI (the ‘Mona Lisa’ and Leonardo da Vinci’s kid sister), SANDRO BOTTICELLI (fifteenth-century master painter), and FINN CLEARY (a child victim onboard Titanic) When the red leaves fall, the October … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S CAMERA…

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Veronica Knox

the low tech high-renaissance 15th century i-phone Leonardo carried these ‘libricini’ (tiny notebooks) everywhere to record what he saw and jot down ideas. Texting was 500 years in Leonardo’s future. Writing was awkward. It’s not as if Leonardo carried a … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S GHOST DOG… BEST IN SHOW

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Veronica Knox

There is a fifteenth-century Italian painting in the National Gallery of London entitled ‘TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL’. I have a love/hate relationship with this 33 in. x 26 in. panel for a Florentine altarpiece. No doubt, this painting seen from … Continue reading →

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