An interesting vocation

Dr. Vito Terribile Wiel Marin digs dead people.

As part of Italian preparations to mark the birthday, Terribile Wiel Marin was called in last autumn to open Petrarch's elegant rose-colored marble tomb in Arqua, just outside Padua, where his body was interred in 1374.

Historians and sculptors had hoped to reconstruct a better model of the poet's face. But that was not to be: The scientific team discovered that grave robbers had stolen the poet's skull, replacing it with that of a woman.