
climbing down Satan’s fur
Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara 1477-1478
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 93v

climbing down Satan’s fur
Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara 1477-1478
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 93v

Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History of Medicine, located in Paris, France.

