资料图："蒙娜丽莎"原型遗骨竟被当垃圾倒掉

　　The remains of the Italian woman who was the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa were dug up 30 years ago and now lie in a municipal rubbish tip, an Italian expert has claimed.

　　意大利一位专家日前表示，早在30年前，达芬奇笔下的《蒙娜丽莎》的原型——一位意大利女子的遗骸就已被挖掘出来，如今被丢弃在市里的一个垃圾场。

　　Lisa Gherardini died in Florence in 1542 and was buried in the grounds of Sant'Orsola convent.

　　丽莎 格拉尔迪尼于1542年在佛罗伦萨去世，安葬在圣奥索拉修道院。

　　Over the centuries the Franciscan convent was used as a tobacco factory and a university teaching facility but in the 1980s a redevelopment was launched to convert it into a barracksfor Italy's tax police, the Guardia di Finanza.

　　在过去几百年间，圣方济会修道院旧址曾被用作卷烟厂和大学校舍。但在20世纪80年代，这里被改造成意大利财政局税务警察的驻地。

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资料图：蒙娜丽莎

　　The developers had no knowledge that it was the final resting place of da Vinci's famous model – that was only discovered in 2007 – and during work to build an underground car park, the convent's foundations were excavated, along with the crumbling remains of graves and tombs.

　　直到2007年，人们才发现这里是达 芬奇笔下最著名的原型人物的安葬地，开发商当年并不知情。在修建地下停车场时，修道院的地基、连同坟墓中破碎的遗骸都被挖开了。

　　The rubble was then dumped in a municipal landfill site on the outskirts of Florence.

　　这堆碎石后来被倾倒在佛罗伦萨市郊的一处垃圾填埋场。

　　The prosaicend to the life of one of the best known figures in art history has only recently come to light through a fresh building project for the convent site.

　　这位艺术史上最著名的人物之一平淡地结束了一生，直到最近修道院旧址要建造一座新建筑时才为人所知。

　　Florence city council wants to turn the half-built police barracks, which has lain semi-derelict and bricked up for years, into a ￡23 million community arts centre.

　　这座未完工的警察驻地已废弃数年，遍布瓦砾，佛罗伦萨市议会想把它改造成一座价值2300万英镑的社区艺术中心。

　　Surveys of the site have shown that the site was excavated in the 1980s to such a depth that no tombs or other historical artefacts survived.

　　对该地的调查显示，这里在20世纪80年代挖掘过深，古墓和其它历史文物都不复存在了。

　　Gherardini is believed to have been born in Florence in 1479. At the age of 16 she became the second wife of a wealthy silk merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, with whom she had five children.

　　据称，格拉尔迪尼于1479年出生于佛罗伦萨，16岁时成为丝绸富商弗朗西斯科 德尔 乔康多的第二任妻子，两人育有5名子女。