Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The law specifically forbid it.

No one except doctors were allowed to dissect corpses.

The act was considered a desecration of the dead, therefore only the bodies of criminals

were permitted to be studied, and once analyzed, even they had to receive a decent burial.

He wasn't a doctor though, so he took to dissecting bodies in secrecy.

Well, in relative secrecy, he was just 17 at the time, and the majority of the cadavers

he worked with came from the monastery of Santa Spirito in Florence, Italy, and with

the full permission of the Catholic Church.

He'd always been interested in the human form, when he was just 13 he studied under a famous

sculptor, and by the time he reached adulthood his talent for documenting the intricacies

of the human form had not gone unnoticed.

Back then, doctors and medical students relied on such drawings.

Importance was given to the understanding of how bones and muscles lie under the skin.

When he was just 15 he showed so much potential that the statesmen known as Lorenzo Dometici,

aka Lorenzo the Magnificent, became quite impressed with the young man's talent and incredible

understanding of the human form.

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