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New research on Botticelli's Venus supports diagnosis of death from a pituitary tumor
New evidence supporting the theory that Botticelli's Venus died from a pituitary tumor has been published in Medical Humanities. It is the third in a series of papers led by Paolo Pozzilli, in which he set out research on the Renaissance aristocrat Simonetta Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli's muse, who died at 23 from suspected tuberculosis.
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