April 07, 2004
» What's happened to Petrarch's head?
Researchers have been studying the body found in Petrarch's tomb at the small town where he died outside Padua in northern Italy in 1374.
The body seems to match Petrarch's own description.
But the head doesn't.
In fact, it looks more like a woman's, according to anatomists from Padua University. Worse: the DNA of the head does not match that of the body.
