Tuscan Church Reveals Answer To Mystery Of Medici Deaths

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 12-28-2006 | John Hooper

[blam]

Tuscan church reveals answer to mystery of Medici deaths

John Hooper in Rome
Thursday December 28, 2006
The Guardian (UK)

Picking through centuries-old rubbish, masonry and discarded body parts beneath an abandoned Tuscan church, an Italian historian believes she has solved one of history's great crime mysteries. For more than four centuries, researchers have puzzled over the fact that Francesco I Medici, the son of the first Grand Duke, Cosimo, died within hours of his wife in October 1587. Legend had it they were poisoned by his brother and successor, a cardinal.

Modern historians have tended to settle for the more down-to-earth explanation that they died of malaria. But Donatella Lippi, an associate professor at the University of Florence, told the Guardian yesterday that she and other researchers had established beyond doubt that Francesco was poisoned and that evidence from "mountains of debris" underneath the deconsecrated church strongly suggested his wife was too. Prof Lippi said that when she came across the remains that were to yield the vital clues "I very nearly had a heart attack".

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Red Badger]

The family that prays together, stays together,.........

[Bahbah]

I decided to go through it with my bare hands so I could actually feel the difference between the stones and dust and any organic matter we might find. It was a terrible job," Prof Lippi said.

I can fully believe that. Quite the dedicated lady. Nasty bunch, those Medicis.

[JimRed]

Discarded body parts?

[kalee]

ping

[kalee]

ping

[IncPen]

Discarded body parts?

Biscotti?

[GreyFriar]

ping

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I will be interested to see whatever proof they come up with.

[rwgal]

The family that goes to church and prays together...stays together, evidently in a trash heap....mmmmmmm??

Meadow Muffin

[Savage Beast]

Another glimpse into the Akashic Records.

Be careful what you do. The record of it is never gone forever.

[SunkenCiv]

Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed
The Guardian (UK) | 7-8-2004 | John Hooper
Posted on 07/11/2004 3:25:26 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169329/posts

Medici Project Turns Up Mystery Bodies
Discovery News | 7-22-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 07/22/2004 8:22:54 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176690/posts

Medici Family Murders Debunked In Italy
Discovery News | 10-11-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 10/13/2004 11:07:07 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244428/posts

Report: Malaria, Not Murder, Killed Medicis
NY Newsday | 3-9-2005 | Bryn Nelson
Posted on 03/11/2005 2:37:11 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360948/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Medici Family Cold Case Finally Solved
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/medici-mystery-cold-case.html

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