Leonardo finally had the opportunity in this period to test his hand at portraiture – of a more benevolent kind – when he was engaged to paint a likeness of the lovely Ginevra de’ Benci, the sophisticated daughter of the wealthy banker, Amerigo de’ Benci, and an object of admiration for numerous poets (fig. 42). Leonardo's father may have facilitated the commission; a longtime friend of the Benci family, he drafted many legal documents for them over the years. Although married in 1474 to Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini, the precocious, sharp-witted Ginevra attracted the fervid attention of the Venetian ambassador Bernardo Bembo, when he visited Florence later in the decade. The intellectual Bembo's devotion to her reportedly took the form of a chaste “Platonic love,” a term coined at that time by Ficino. Openly and widely acknowledged, their relationship (and her beauty) became the subject of Petrarchan sonnets written by several poets at the Medici court, notably Cristoforo Landino, Alessandro Braccesi, and Il Magnifico himself.