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Researchers Say Tumour Apoplexy Likely Killed Botticelli’s Muse Simonetta Vespucci

A peer‑reviewed paper argues archival letters and AI analysis of portraits point to a bleeding pituitary tumour as the probable cause of her 1476 death and calls for further study of remaining uncertainties.