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Titolo: Si riaccende il dibattito sul presunto teschio di Mozart.

        “I WOULD BE ABLE to spot Mozart’s skull among thousands,” the
professor of palaeontology told Reuters. “Mozart was buried in his wig, so
the exterior is well preserved.”
       The skull has traces of dental disease. Mozart frequently complained
of toothache. Moreover, a fragile bone structure points to the childhood
disease rickets — a weakness of the bone stemming from a deficiency of
vitamin D which was then rampant in Europe.
       But Tichy’s claim has led to bone-picking with the foundation. It
says the skull could be a fake and that there is no evidence it actually
belonged to the composer, who died in 1791 at the age of 35. “In 1991, 10
international experts examined the skull. The conclusion was that it is
probably not Mozart’s,” a spokeswoman at the foundation said.
       Tichy, who spent months examining the bone, remains adamant he can
prove its identity. The skull displayed the same well-defined high forehead
as contemporary portraits of the musician, for example.
A BONE OF CONTENTION
       In his recently published book “Mozart’s Unwilling Legacy,” Tichy
also throws light on the mystery surrounding the composer’s early death, a
subject that inspired Milos Forman’s 1985 hit film “Amadeus.” In the film,
court composer Antonio Salieri plots to destroy his upstart young rival, but
Tichy says the skull tells another story. “Mozart was not poisoned,” he
said.
       One of the skull’s most prominent characteristics is an eight cm
(three inch) long fracture on the left temple. Tichy believes Mozart
sustained the injury when he fell from a horse or on one of his notorious
drinking bouts. “Mozart wrote to a friend in 1790 that his head was bandaged
due to rheumatic pains,” he said.
       Tichy lists 13 possible causes of death and several men with a motive
from Salieri to Mozart’s wife’s lover, but he thinks the composer died of
something much more commonplace. “Mozart probably died from influenza and
the consequences of his fracture,” he said. Although the wound healed well,
it may have contributed to the fits of paranoia and depression he suffered
in his last year of life.
       In accordance with contemporary Viennese custom, Mozart was buried in
a mass grave with no headstone. But the maestro was not left to rest with
the anonymous skeletons in his pit. After a decade, his remains were dug up
by the local gravedigger who cherished the skull as a keepsake.
       According to Tichy, the skull changed hands — including a stint with
a Viennese anatomy professor — before arriving in Salzburg in 1902.
“Stealing skulls was nothing extraordinary in Mozart’s time,” said Tichy.
       Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Haydn lost his head to a dedicated fan
who had it preserved and enshrined in a tomb in his garden. The skull will
not be put on public display. “He is dozing in a locked case,” the Mozarteum
Foundation spokeswoman said.
       © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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vitamin D which was then rampant in Europe.
Mi sembra che questa sia una non-dimostrazione. "Il teschio mostra dei segni
di una malattia comunissima, che anche Mozart aveva". Ma non potrebbe allora
appartenere ad UNO QUALSIASI degli altri malati?
Capirei se mostrasse segni di una malattia RARISSIMA che solo Mozart aveva.
Ma cosi'...
Leonardo
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