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”Italian authorities recently announced that they had almost certainly identified the remains of the artist Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), ending a 400-year-old mystery concerning the final whereabouts of the master Baroque painter. (Pictured: Caravaggio’s great 1597 painting,
Bacchus.) A towering artist, Caravaggio was also a notorious brawler and drunkard. Rome exiled him in 1606 for killing a man in a fight, and the circumstances of his death four years later in the Tuscan coastal town of Porto Ecole have long been unclear. Theories about the cause of his death range from syphilis or malaria to revenge killing by one of his many enemies. His bones, found in a crypt in Porto Ecole, were identified by DNA samples from living descendants of his family line. Still — while Caravaggio’s bones have been found, there remain plenty of famous people out there for whom that sort of finality remains elusive. In other words: No one knows where the bodies are — or if they do, they ain’t talking.” (http://www.life.com/gallery/44811/famous-people-who-simply-vanished?xid=picsofwk#index/0)
Does anyone have further info on th e above story?
