In Milan Cathedral, the most famous sculpture was Saint Bartholomew. He looked like a skeleton draped in a shawl.
But the "shawl" was actually the skin that had been flayed from his body. It was the work of a Lombardy sculptor in 1562, when human dissection was no longer something shameful and sculptors could freely display their mastery of anatomy.
During his stay in Florence, Napoleon had purchased locally made wax anatomical models. These wax figures were colored and constructed entirely according to the human body's structure, looking exactly like the real thing.
After bathing, Georgiana still went to Napoleon's library, because it was the only place with the dictionary she needed.
Many French words came from Latin, but imagine came from the fourteenth-century Old French "imaginer," meaning to carve, depict, or paint.
Its Latin form, "Imaginari," referred to a mental image, like a painter using a brush to portray what he saw upon paper.
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientific painter. He sought to make his paintings resemble real human bodies as closely as possible, so he performed many dissections. This influenced many people into believing that paintings should be as realistic as possible.
Mind referred to thought and sensation. It might have come from the late twelfth-century Old English mynd, meaning memory, recollection, or a remembered form. Or it might have come from the Germanic mundiz, meaning thought, and the Old German minne, meaning love—originally, a cherished memory.
That old fool said Voldemort had been defeated by love, so he had probably chosen the Old German meaning.
"What are you looking all that up for?" Bonaparte asked when he saw what she had written down.
"Secret." Georgiana tucked the note away in her locket.
"Why did Milan suddenly come to mind?" he asked, sitting on his desk.
"It