The Tanella di Pitagora: is it the real grave of the famous Pythagoras?

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ The so-called Tanella di Pitagora is located a short distance from the walls of Cortona in Maesta del Sasso, halfway between Camucia and Cortona. The name derives from the confusion made in the past between Cortona and Crotone, the homeland of the philosopher Pythagoras, believing that the monument was the house in which he lived. We do not know when the tomb was discovered but the first to give news of the monument was Giorgio Vasari who had the opportunity to see it in 1566. In the seventeenth century it was clarified that the construction had no relation to Pythagoras and that it was rather a tomb. In the nineteenth century there is news of the precarious conditions of preservation of the tomb (in 1808 the tomb was damaged by Napoleonic troops during the passage from the territory of Cortona) and of the discovery of a funerary stone formed by a parallelepiped surmounted by a sphere, the inscribed lid of a cinerary urn and fragments of very rough vases (jars?). Between 1918 ...