Mastro Adamo, the Counterfeiter of Coins, had cirrhosis as described in Dante's Inferno (13th century Florence)

Affiliations

• ¹ Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, Legal Medicine Section, University of Turin, Italy; UMR 7268, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France. Electronic address: r.bianucci@warwick.ac.uk.
• ² Department of Medicine, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Gorizia, Italy.
• ³ Section of Medical and Forensic Anthropology (UVSQ & Paris-Descartes University EA 4569), Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; CASH & IPES, Nanterre, France.
• ⁴ New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, 361 Ridge Horn Dr, Albuquerque, NM, USA; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Italy.