How did Raphael the artist from the high Renaissance die?
died Apr 6, 1520 Is supposed to have died from a night of too much sex with his mistress. Becoming sick he lied about the cause of his illness which led to misdiagnosis, was therefor not properly treated and died about two weeks later. He did not die in flagrante delicto (during recreational horizontality) because he had time to put his affairs in order and have last rites. Remember, this was pre-modern medicine. He could have aspirated a bit of saliva, done something naughty and gotten an aggressive viral or bacterial infection or simply have had an unrelated illness whose acute development coincided with his romp. His death at about his 37th birthday was not particularly untimely as that was near the average life expectancy of the age. Nasty era….dirty and unhealthy.
