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ReviewHormones (Athens, Greece)2022

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): an "infernal" endocrinological observation.

Piergiorgio Mandarano, Graziella Masciangelo, Emanuele Armocida

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Review in Hormones (Athens, Greece), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Piergiorgio MandaranoUniversita Degli Studi Di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Graziella MasciangeloUniversita Degli Studi Di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Emanuele ArmocidaUniversita Degli Studi Di Parma, Parma, Italy. emanuele.armocida@studio.unibo.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3780-055X
University of Parma · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. Is it appropriate to celebrate this anniversary in a journal of endocrinology? The answer is yes-the motivation for this being found in the giants that Dante, in his Divine Comedy, places around the well that divides Circle 8 from Circle 9 of Hell. The "Supreme Poet" describes one of the giants (Nimrod, a Biblical character) as having a large and elongated face with a body of gargantuan proportions. Such a description immediately calls to mind the characteristics of acromegalic prognathism, the huge stature being the most pathognomonic aspect. Is it possible that the sharp eye of Dante had observed such a feature in people affected by actual gigantism?

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AcromegalyAnniversaries and Special EventsHumansDanteDivine ComedyGiantsGigantismNimrodProganitsm

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PMID34755282
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