Groundbreaking DNA evidence indicates that malaria might have caused the untimely deaths of Renaissance rulers Francesco I de' Medici and Bianca Cappello. Researchers discovered the presence of lethal ...
Ancient DNA malaria research has overturned the Medici poison theory: a Yale University and University of Pisa study ...
Since the mysterious deaths of a husband and wife in the Medici family, a powerful Italian dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany almost uninterruptedly from 1434 to 1737, rumors have swirled about ...