Women Courtesans and Queens

By Raffaele Crispino

Ironic, satirical. Learn the History cheerfully.
From Marie Antoinette to Greta Garbo. By Messalina to Lucrezia Borgia. All women who have had a life tormented, fascinating and sometimes tragic. Anita Garibaldi will speak of her love for Joseph, who will take her to follow him to Italy. Cleopatra analyze her life and the need to be wicked and cruel enough to push it to kill her sister. The Countess of Castiglione explain the reasons that led it to be a courtesan as the Marquise de Pompadour, will report its ability to remain still the favorite of the king although there were young women decided to take her place. Mona Lisa admire her composure and her way of being a woman in the presence of Leonardo while painting her portrait. Helen of Troy tells us that escape with Paris to Troy was the only wise thing she has done in her life and to have no remorse for the thousands of dead because of her. The reports, reportage interviews with these famous women of every age lead us to expand in every time with the belief that if you want to explain this one must always look to the past

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raffaele Crispino
• Release date: Jan 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310071416

Raffaele Crispino

Raffaele Crispino was born in Frattaminore , lives in Formia ( a beautiful seaside town surrounded by mountains ) . He began writing a twenty years ago. He began with a story : The unemployed doc . For this story has won the 1st prize of the Italian Literary Club for fiction . His books range from humor to yellow up to thrillers and horror . Amateur painter , paints , mostly nudes and flowers. He loves to fish though never fails to fill the network. He worked for the railway company Trenitalia. Now retired just in time. The sun is there, the sea also and now there is also the health. Viva la vida.He published :1 " The unemployed doc ( or the art of doing nothing )A semi-serious discourse on unemployment..2 " A pizza with the Queen " ( A chat with Anita Resort Garibaldi in Caprera . A hot chocolate with Cavour to Piazza Castello in Turin . Humorous )3 " The elevator . Boston- ( a thriller you do not expect . After reading this book you will have a fear of taking any lift. )4 “Before the day starts”Crispino Raffaele è nato a Frattaminore,vive a Formia (una bella città di mare circondata dalle montagne). Ha cominciato a scrivere un venti anni fa. Iniziò con un racconto: Il disoccupato doc. Per questo racconto ha vinto il 1° premio del Club Letterario Italiano per la narrativa. I suoi libri spaziano dal umorismo al giallo fino ai thriller e horror . Pittore per passione, dipinge, per lo più nudi e fiori. Ama pescare anche se non riesce mai a riempire la rete. Ha lavorato per la compagnia ferroviaria Trenitalia. Ora è andato in pensione appena in tempo. Il sole c’è, il mare pure e per adesso c’è anche la salute. Viva la vida.Ha pubblicato :1 " Il disoccupato doc (ovvero l'arte di non fare niente)Un discorso semiserio sulla disoccupazione..2 “ Una pizza con la regina” (Quattro chiacchiere con Garibaldi nel Resort Anita a Caprera. Una cioccolata calda con Cavour a piazza Castello a Torino. Umoristico)3 " L’ascensore. Boston-( un thriller che non ti aspetti. Dopo aver letto questo libro avrete paura di prendere un qualsiasi ascensore.)4 Prima che comici il giornoCrispino Raffaele è nato a Frattaminore,vive a Frattamaggiore in provincia di Napoli . Vive a Formia. Quindi è italiano. In inglese per attraversare l’oceano. Dipinge, per lo più nudi e fiori. Ama pescare anche se non riesce mai a riempire la rete. Sfortunato? Ha lavorato per la compagnia ferroviaria Trenitalia. Ora è andato in pensione appena in tempo. Il sole c’è, il mare pure e per adesso c’è anche la salute. Viva la vida.Ha pubblicato :1 " Il disoccupato doc (ovvero l'arte di non fare niente)"Un discorso semiserio sulla disoccupazione.Per questo racconto ha vintoIl 1° premio del Club Letterario Italiano per la narrativa.2 “ Un anno,un giorno”( romanzo che analizza gli aspetti contraddittori dell’ambiente cinematografico della Roma degli anni 90.)3 “ Le interviste alla storia” (Quattro chiacchiere con Garibaldi nel Resort Anita a Caprera. Una cioccolata calda con Cavour a piazza Castello a Torino. Umoristico)4 - L’ascensore. Boston- ( un thriller che non ti aspetti. Dopo aver letto questo libro avrete paura di prendere un qualsiasi ascensore.) In attesa di traduzione in inglese5 - Prima che comici il giorno- (Quando l’assassino bussa alla tua porta)6 -Artemio il monaco- thriller una vicenda oscura7 - L'oro di Cleopatra- Un giallo? Un thriller o piuttosto una grande storia d'amore8 - Frequenza di contatto- Thriller

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This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously

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Le Donne

La Gioconda Anita Garibaldi Greta Garbo

1 The Gioconda

"I'm Lisa, but for all of you J am the Mona Lisa. Just because I married Francesco del Giocondo. A family happy and joyful, then.

I still remember the first time I saw Leonardo: April 15, 1503 We were in my reception room on the first floor of our building. The teacher looked at me, in fact he stared at me for a while time; then walked over to my husband and told him that I had to arrange to take off a bit of hair under my chin and not gain weight much. He came back to me and asked me to sit up. He corrected the position of the arms and smiled, then took out his cell phone and made a self with the mirror in front. If you do research in archives, you will find me smiling with Leo. The photos I was asked by one of you that came from the future, "says the Gherardini calm voice and tune.

Excuse me Madonna Lisa, was necessary. I'll have to see the features, proportions , apologized Leonardo, then lowered his head left.

Here, we spoke about the Mona Lisa. You see the dumb who scrutinizes his eyes as if to hide a secret. Instead I heard his voice.

I was born in Florence and are a noblewoman

We know that. She belongs to a noble family , I rise.

I'm a Gherardini. My family was rich. At the time when I got married we had lost a bit of wealth but we had enough to live on the income. I made a good marriage, so that sprang from the 100th to the 50th place of the richest of Florence

Who was the first in Florence?, I lose by asking.

"I do not know. Try to see the annual ranking of Forbes and will know "

Do not be angry, please. It was a way to cool down a bit the tension of this meeting. Go on

"Many of the young people of your age think love. How stupid and deluded people! Colonel Musaccio always said to his daughters: women and whores, with skim of old and young intellectuals in order to rejuvenate the mind and body but ready to marry the count.

And virginity faded, you say? Flourish with care Magician Orzoe that in time of possession dazzle the sight and senses of the groom, "she says in one breath.

I watch and not interrupting. Lisa drinking a glass of water. She smiles and continues.

I had five children. I do not know if, when Leonardo painted me, I was pregnant or just given birth

You know that painting is worth the astronomical?, referring to.

Yes. You, sir, do you think I could ask for image rights. I'm sure that he had never sold , she asks.

Perhaps, the procedure is a bit long but with a good lawyer will be able to get something

"Oh, the lawyers! None of my descendants will ask something because

the Tuscan branch of the Gherardini was extinguished with the death of Fabio, the last noble family in Tuscany ", regrets.

But Leonardo gave you eternity, the popularity. By the way it was for real? I ask.

Lisa does not respond immediately. Revolves around the room and sits down.

Enigmatic and mysterious. I think then he had a lot of work for this he agreed to do the portrait. Meanwhile took no unemployment and thought to his studies on birds. Once he told me that he would be able to fly

But there was some magnate who subsidize it?

In those days there was hunger and famine. The great patrons were all gone. There was, in short, a Aurelio (n.b. president of the Naples football) that takes up the bag and resurrects a club failed

How did you come into contact with this great artist? Her husband knew or Leonardo was a distant relative?

"None of that. Simply went to live near the house of Piero da Vinci in Pepi street near the Basilica of Santa Croce I do not know the reason or the cause for which my husband commissioned the painting or how many florins called on account. There were misunderstandings, mishaps. Once the teacher left us for a week to answer a work call in Milan. He knows how to make the youth of today. They start with the little money and go to Milan as