Sapienza University of Rome
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Asked 5 March 2013
I'm looking for any information about doctors who attended Cosimo and Piero de' Medici in fifteenth century Florence.
I would especially like to find any consilia by Maestro Ficino
All Answers (1)
I suggest you to examine the Pieraccini work on the Medicea family (La stirpe dei Medici di Cafaggiolo, 3 voll.), in which the author (a physical anthrpologist) also described the pathological evidences observed and explored on the exhumed corpses (still preserved in the San Lorenzo Chapel) in the '30s of last century, comparing these data with the historical sources concernig the description of deseases of the members of the Medici's family. You also might follow the studies and the works of the Paleopathologist Gino Fornaciari of the University of Pisa, who also explored the Medici's corpses and still deals whit this research area to deduce a retrospective diagnosys on their pathological histories
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Best Regards,
Raju Chiluvuri
Related Publications
Book InformationArt, Memory and the Family in Renaissance Florence. Edited by Giovanni Ciapelli and Patricia Lee Rubin. Cambridge U.P.. Cambridge. 2000. Pp. 316. £45.