Progetto ‘Medici’: the ”misterious” death of Francesco I de’ Medici and Bianca Cappello
Recently Mari et al. , "exhuming" an old legend, claimed that the Grand Duke Francesco I and his wife Bianca Cappello were poisoned with arsenic by the Grand…
Food and disease at the Renaissance courts of Naples and Florence: A paleonutritional study
A paleonutritional study of the Medici Grand Dukes in Florence (16th–17th centuries) and of the Aragonese Princes in Naples (15th–17th centuries) was…
Application of segmentation and 3D rendering techniques in the mummies of Cangrande della Scala (1291-1329) and S. Giacomo della Marca (1391-1476)
Computed Tomography (CT) has become a routinely non-invasive technique in paleopathology, allowing acquiring data about state of preservation, embalming…
Scientists seek Galileo exhumation to focus on eyesight
Italian and British scientists want to exhume the body of 16th-century astronomer Galileo for DNA tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have…
