Plot:This is the second follow-up to Return to Hell Valley
Synopsis: The opening of a new gallery in Hill Valley touches off friction between Marty and Jennifer. The owner of the new gallery happens to be Jan Jandick. The same woman whose was one time abused by her husband Jim until Marty went back in time and confronted a younger Jim resulting in the latter's run-in with the Hell's Angels causing him to have a traumatic experience that changed his life. Marty and the Pinheads were invited to perform for the opening of this gallery. After the performance, Jennifer sees Marty talking to Jan and gets jealous. Apparently, Marty's altering of the time line from a battered Jan to a Jan in who has become a successful bussinesswoman had caused Marty to have a Pygmalion complex. Upset over his admiration of what he had done almost a year earlier, Jennifer angerly tells Marty off. After an angry exchange of words, Jennifer slaps him causing the other guests to restrain both of them. The Parkers demand that their daughter apologize to Marty at once but she refuses and thereby leaves the gallery crying. Days go by without either saying a word. Then, one day Doc looks at the photograph of Marty and Jennifer's future wedding and sees both of them and the wedding party disappear-"erased from existance". After looking up a newspaper he brought from the future and looks up the wedding date. There was no mention of a McFly-Parker wedding on that day. Fearing that permanent break-up might cause a paradox, he devises a plan to take both of them back in time and leave them there until they make up. Clara calls Jennifer over to babysit Jules and Vern while she and Doc were out. Doc calls Marty over because he needed assistance on an experiment he was conducting. Clara instructs the boys to act "out of control" as a distraction while she and Doc sleep induce her. At the same time, Doc concocts a knockout drug for Marty. Both plans work. With the two former lovers immobilized, Doc and Clara take them back in time to 15th Century Italy and leaves them there. Not wanting to have anything to do with each other, the two go their separate ways. Marty enters the city of Florence where goes to a tavern and meets a girl who resembles Jennifer. She introduces herself as Simonetta Vespucci. While they are chatting, Count Tannenio, an ancestor of Biff's, arrives and gives them both trouble. He desires Simonetta who is married to Marco Vespucci. Marty intercedes but is chased out of the tavern with Simonetta in tow. Meanwhile, Jennifer shows up at an art studio run by the great Reniassance painter, Sandro Botticelli who mistakes her for Simonetta and asks her to pose for his painting The Birth of Venus. Back in town, Marty and Simonetta get help from the latter's husband, Marco, and Prince Lorenzo Medici who tells the evil count that he's got better things to do. Marty learns that Prince Lorenzo had commissioned Botticelli to paint Simonetta. The three escort Simonetta to Botticelli's studio only to discover a look-a-like of Simonetta standing on a clamshell naked. It is Jennifer. And what's more, she plans to spend the rest of her life in the 15th century.
Background:Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was the Reniassance's most formost painters. Other than The Birth of Venus (1485), he also painted Primavera (1478), St. Augustine in his Study (1480), Madonna of the Magnificat (1485), The Adoration of the Magi (1470-75), Madonna of the Pomegranate (1487),and The Cestello Annunciation (1489). He was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi in Florence in the year 1445. He began his apprenticeship as a goldsmith early in life. Later on he studied under the painter Fra Filippo Lippi. Except for a trip to Rome in 1481-82 to paint wall frescos in the Sisteen Chapel of the Vatican, he spent his whole life in Florence. There he spent most of the time painting religious and Greek and Roman mythological paintings. The Medici family was featured in most of these paintings, especially The Adoration of the Magi. His painting, The Birth of Venus hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Simonetta Vespucci was born Simonetta Cattaneo in 1454. There is a conflict on her birthplace. Some say that she was born at Porto Venere, the place where the goddess Venus was to be born. Others said it was at Genoa. At age fifteen, she married Marco Vespucci who was a distant cousin of Amerigo Vespucci whose name attributed to the name "America". Through the Vespucci family, she was founded by Botticelli and other prominent painters at the time when she came to Florence. Her beauty was the inspiration for the painting of The Birth of Venus and other allegorical paintings. Her face was also used for the Virgin Mary in the religious paintings. She was the desire of the great Medici family and was believed to be the mistress of Prince Lorenzo de Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. Lorenzo's brother, Giuliano, also desired her. Unfortunately, she started to suffer consumption and on April 26, 1476 she died. Nine years after her death, Botticelli finished painting The Birth of Venus.
Lorenzo de Medici(1449-1492)ruled Florence from 1469 until his death in 1492. The first nine years were with his brother Giuliano until he was assassinated in 1478. He was a patron of art, literature, and education. Under his leadership, Florence greatly stimulated the developement of commerce, litarature, and art.
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, there was a rebirth in art, literature and learning. It was called the Renaissance (which is french for "rebirth"). It lasted three centuries and produced the greatest artists of it's time ( Leonardo da Vinci, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.) It spread from Italy to The Netherlands, Germany and France.
Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870) was one of the most noted French authors of the Nineteenth Century. Like Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Dumas' novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Christo were among the most read and discussed French novels of that time.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), an Italian , was one of the most versatile men of all time. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, inventor, and athlete. He was a many-sided creator whose achievements stamped him as a genius. He was also an extremely complicated human being. It was said that he had the strength to bend a horseshoe in his hands, yet he was gentle enough to buy caged birds merely to set them free. It is interesting to note that strength and gentleness also became the dominant qualities of his work in art. These qualities were particularly apparent in two of his world-famous paintings, The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a beautiful portrait of a woman whose strange smile has continued to fascinate observers down to the present time.
Tidbit of triviality here. I set the date of Marty and Jennifer's future wedding for May 3, 1994. That was the wedding date of Leanne Craigmile, the niece of my boss Jim Kilburg. The thing was that I didn't know she was married until the Monday after. I had an admiration for her (but who wouldn't.) She was pretty. However, I hadn't been talking to her since 1988 until April of 2000. And I liked her a lot. Like I said, she's married now and has two kids (a boy and a girl-the girl came in October of 2001).
And finally, I'm constrained to point out that this is the longest BTTF story that I have written (20 chapters in all). It breaks the previous mark of 17 set by "Back to the Ides of March" for most chapters in a story that I have written.
'Nuff said.
