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Early life[edit]
Lisa's Florentine family was old and aristocratic but over time had lost their influence.[1] They were well off but not wealthy, and lived on a farm income in a city where there were great disparities in wealth among inhabitants.[2]
Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini, Lisa's father, came from a family who had lived on properties near San Donato in Poggio and only recently moved to the city.[3] Gherardini at one time owned or rented six farms in Chianti that produced wheat, wine, and olive oil and where livestock was raised.[4]
In 1465, Gherardini married Lisa di Giovanni Filippo de' Carducci, and in 1473, Caterina di Mariotto Rucellai; both of them died in childbirth.[5] Lisa's mother was Lucrezia del Caccia, daughter of Piera Spinelli, and Gherardini's wife by his third marriage in 1476.[5]
Lisa was born in Florence on June 15, 1479, on Via Maggio,[5] although for many years it was thought she was born on Villa Vignamaggio just outside Greve, one of the family's rural properties.[6] She was named for Lisa, a wife of her paternal grandfather.[7] The eldest of seven children, Lisa had three sisters, one of whom was named Ginevra, and three brothers, Giovangualberto, Francesco, and Noldo.[8]
The family lived in Florence, originally near Santa Trinita and later in rented space near Santo Spirito, likely because they were unable to afford repairs when their first house was damaged. Lisa's family moved to what today is called Via dei Pepi, and then near Santa Croce, where they lived near Ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo's father.[9]
They also owned a small country home in St. Donato in the village of Poggio about 32 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city.[10] Noldo, Gherardini's father and Lisa's grandfather, had bequeathed a farm in Chianti to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital. Gherardini secured a lease for another of the hospital's farms; the family spent summers there at the house named Ca' di Pesa, so that Gherardini could oversee the wheat harvest.[11]
- ^ Pallanti 2006, p. 58.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, pp. 17, 23, 24.
- ^ Kemp & Pallanti 2017, p. 10.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, pp. 41–44.
- ^ a b c Pallanti 2006, p. 37.
- ^ "History of Vignamaggio". Villa Vignamaggio. Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, p. 40.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, p. 44.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, pp. 45–46.
- ^ Zöllner 1993, p. 118.
- ^ Pallanti 2006, p. 42.