Donatella
Lippi: Die Geheimnisse der Medici
– Medizinhistorische Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinŠren Projektes
The Medici ruled Florence during the golden centuries of
the Renaissance and all of them are buried in the Cappelle Medicee (Florence).
In 2004 started the Medici Project, a paleopathological and
historico-medical research, based on the exhumation and the study of their
corpses of the Medici, in order to reconstruct their diseases, their causes of
death, their daily life, comparing the paleopathological results with the
literary and iconographical tradition. The historical and paleopathological
study includes the identification of all the stigmata which
have left a sign on these remains: the research involves a number of
specialistic approaches, from macroscopic study to palaeonutrition and
molecular biology. The first step, however, regards the literary and iconographical
study: starting from the examination of these sources it was possible to
reconstruct the history of the archeological situation, which was upset by
other exhumations, which took place in the past, and by the flood of the Arno
river (1966). Thanks to the combination of these different approaches, it was
possible to confirm the poisoning of Francesco I and his second wife Bianca Cappello and the murder of Giovanni dalle Bande
Nere.
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