PREVIEW: MONA LISA: Colleague Lorenzo Fiori presents the profile of the medieval village of Bobbio that Leonardo da Vinci used for the Mona Lisa. More to come.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague Lorenzo Fiori. He's in Babio, Italy. It is about an |
| 0:07.8 | hour's drive from Milan. It is an ancient medieval town. The landscape has a unique bridge on it |
| 0:16.7 | called the hunchback bridge. Why this is all important is because if you will look at the Mona Lisa painting |
| 0:23.8 | and the background, there's a detective story here, |
| 0:29.2 | in your own eyes will tell you where this is going. |
| 0:33.2 | The name of the Mona Lisa is Lorenzo Fiore to explain |
| 0:37.2 | and consider the Mona Lisa is Lorenzo Fiori to explain and consider the Mona Lisa. |
| 0:41.0 | Where is that? |
| 0:43.1 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, I do suggest all the radio listeners to Google and take the picture of Mona Lisa painting |
| 0:52.1 | and have a look by enlarging the picture on the right side |
| 0:58.3 | above the shoulder of Mona Lisa you can see a bridge that bridge have five arches very |
| 1:04.0 | likely that bridge looks like the bridge of Bobbio because even that bridge has an irregular shape |
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