Impressions from Badia Pozzeveri by C.S. Larsen
I am writing from the inside of Badia Pozzeveri near the former altar at a makeshift desk presenting my preliminary observations of the bioarchaeological…
MORTAL GUNSHOT WOUND IN AN EARLY 19th CENTURY MUMMY FROM CENTRAL ITALY
The crypt of the church of the "Saints Jesus and Mary" of Borgo Cerreto, a village near Spoleto (Umbria, central Italy), revealed the natural mummy of a…
The ‘Gout’ of the Medici, Grand Dukes of Florence: a palaeopathological study
Methods. The skeletal remains of the Grand Dukes and their families, buried in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, were examined macroscopically and…
Quando la paleopatologia e’ arte… Ritratto “espressionista” di fegato mummificato
Nonostante le marcate alterazioni postmortali, gli organi interni risultano spesso ben conservati nelle mummie naturali.
Paleoandrology and prostatic hyperplasia in italian mummies (xv-xix centuries)
Prostatic hyperplasia, a very common condition today, was well known in the past as cause for bladder distension. The difficulty to identify, at autopsy of…
Malaria Was “the Killer” of Francesco I de’ Medici (1531-1587)
Francesco was the first child of Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), First Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo (1522-1562). He became…
Rheumatoid arthritis, Klippel-Feil syndrome and Pott’s disease in Cardinal Carlo de’ Medici (1595-1666)
The skeleton of Carlo revealed a concentration of different severe pathologies. Ankylosis of the cervical column, associated with other facial and spine…