# Raphael dies in Rome at 37 during peak workshop load; contemporary reports stress fever, not a modern diagnosis

Date: 1520

## The fact

On 6 April 1520 [Raphael](/people/raphael) died in Rome. Vasari and medical rumour later offered causes. This Fact stores the death as a capacity shock to a shop that then passed to Giulio Romano, not a verified pathogen.

## Context

Do not write a 1520 laboratory result. Do record a young master’s death as a workshop-continuity and body cost of court overwork, low confidence on mechanism.

Raphael is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Museum or basilica pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Treccani — Raffaello Sanzio (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/raffaello-sanzio/; Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana).

## Significance

A documented death at 37 is a low-confidence health path. No invented microbe.

A documented death at 37 is a low-confidence health path. No invented microbe.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is infectious-disease-transmission. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Raphael: https://factrail.ai/people/raphael

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raphael-Italian-painter-and-architect
- https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/raffaello-sanzio/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ra-health-death-1520