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Date: 20070112
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London, Jan 12 -- Famous Florentine painter Dante Alighieri did not have bulging eyes or a pointed chin, but his enormous nose was true to life, according to scientists who have created a replica of the poet's face by measuring the remains of his skull.

The 3D reconstruction, based on skull measurements, alongside Botticelli's portrait of Dante Alighieri

The researchers at the University of Bologna have pieced together the "true face" of Florence's favourite son and discovered that it was very different from the ...

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