Reincarnation

During several past-life regression hypnosis sessions, it has come to light that, in his previous incarnations, Mario was
 * Ramesses the Great,
 * Alexander the Great,
 * Alfred the Great,
 * Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (his David sculpture being a self-portrait),
 * Suleiman the Magnificent, and
 * Ivan the Terrible (schurely schome mistake? Ed)

Oh, and Lisa was
 * Queen Neffertiti,
 * Catherine the Great, and (of course)
 * the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.