Two Renaissance cold cases, solved…?
Italian scientists claim to have solved two mysterious deaths from the Quattrocento: those of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Agnolo Ambrogini, two big-brained Florentines at Lorenzo de’ Medici’s court who suddenly passed away within only a few weeks of each other in 1494.
Though some historians had conjectured the pair might have died of syphilis, the contemporary rumours of [...] Read more »