Mystery AtlasLuigi Garlaschelli
Italian chemist whose 1991 study with Franco Ramaccini and Sergio Della Sala produced a thixotropic ferric-chloride gel reproducing the liquefaction behaviour of the San Gennaro relic, using materials available in the 14th century.
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Luigi Garlaschelli is frequently compared to Odoardo Linoli — Both are Italian scientists whose analyses anchor opposite readings of this site's Catholic-relic pages: Linoli reported confirmatory histological findings for the Lanciano miracle, while Garlaschelli produced a naturalistic replication for San Gennaro's blood.
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Luigi Garlaschelli was used to analyse Blood of San Gennaro — Garlaschelli's 1991 Nature paper reproduced the liquefaction behaviour with a thixotropic ferric-chloride gel made from 14th-century-available materials; this tested a replica, not the ampoule's actual contents, which the Church has never permitted direct sampling of.