[The conjoined twins born in Valdarno al Terraio].
Surgical pre and post-operative problems involving the separation of conjoined twins of ischiopagus type make actual the interpretation of a relief coming from the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Florence and dating probably from XIVth century. The work has been sculptured after the death of a couple of ischiopagus twins in the same Hospital in 1316. Their birth is registered in Giovanni Villani's Cronaca and in Petrarca's Rerum Memorandarum Libri.
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D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000266:history*; D049691:History, Medieval; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*; D014428:Twins, Conjoined
Il Fanciul con due capi, e tre piedi, e quattro mani, in Valdarno al Terraio.