[blam]

GGG Ping.

[hflynn]

Wait a minute, it was a made man named Johnnie No Nose Malaria.

[ClearCase_guy]

The 16-year-old, Garcia, was rumored to have slain his 19-year-old brother, Giovanni, after an argument during a hunting trip in 1562. In a rage, Cosimo I then supposedly ran Garcia through with his sword, and Eleanora died less than a week later from a broken heart.

Is there an un-written rule that the skeleton must bear signs of any violent death?

Slain during a hunting trip? Did he sneak up and slit his brother's throat?
Run through with his sword? At about naval height? But perhaps off to the right a bit?

Edged weapons can easily kill without contacting bone. Sure, this new theory could be right, and the culprit may have been malaria. But examining the bones cannot offer any proof.

[expatpat]

Not very convincing. If they'd been Venice-based, perhaps, but in Florence? I thought poison was the preferred method in those times.

[SunkenCiv]

That does sound reasonable; one reason for Leonardo's plan to reroute the Arno river (the plan failed due to faulty bidding, leading to an idiot brother in law of some politician getting a crucial subcontract) was to drain swampland; the malaria problem wasn't solved until the 19th century if memory serves.

will ping the list when I get home or sometime tomorrow.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fedora]

"We found no signs of violence at all, none at all,"

Doesn't necessarily rule out poison, and every royal court at that time had poison experts.

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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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