FLORENCE, Italy, June 24 (UPI) -- An Italian group says it will launch a petition drive to have Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa sent to Florence in 2013.
The National Committee for Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage together with the Province of Florence has initiated a drive to gather 100,000 signatures for a petition asking the Louvre in Paris to loan the masterpiece to the city, Italian news agency ANSA reported Friday.