The skull of Pliny the Elder a fantasy, a hypothesis or a mystery

Abstract

This year is the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus)
which took place in Como between 23 and 24 AD. eclectic genius: writer, naturalist philosopher, military commander, author of a precious work in 37 books, the "Naturalis historia", among which the topic
which deals with medicine, evidence that it is an opportunity for the Academy of Health Art History, a cultural institution aimed at the History of Medicine, to celebrate the event through a singular "anatomical link" with Pliny represented by skeletal remains consisting of a skull cap and a jaw supposed to belong to him and which are exhibited in the Museum.