Editing Pope Innocent VIII (section)

==Death==
By July 1492, Innocent had become very skinny. To Filippo Valori,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1492.html | title=Sede Vacante1492 }}</ref> he had become 'an inert mass of flesh, incapable of assimilating any nourishment but a few drops of milk from a young woman's breast'.<ref> Valori, quoted in Pirie, ''The Triple Crown'', Spring 1935, p. 29 </ref> 
He then soon developed a fever and died.

===Tomb===
[[File:Monument to Innocentius VIII in Saint Peter's Basilica.jpg|thumb|left|Monument to Innocentius VIII in Saint Peter's Basilica]]

Innocent was first buried in the Oratory of Our Lady in [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]]. The tomb was crafted by [[Antonio del Pollaiuolo]], who completed the work shortly before his own death in February 1498.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Pollaiuolo|display=Pollaiuolo s.v. Antonio|volume=22|page=1}}</ref>
Around 1507 it was moved to the "Shroud" aisle adjacent to the Chapel of the Holy Lance.   

The inscription below his tomb in Saint Peter's states: "Nel tempo del suo Pontificato, la gloria della scoperta di un nuovo mondo" (transl. "During his Pontificate, the glory of the discovery of a new world."). Writer [[Ruggero Marino]], in his book ''Cristoforo Colombo e il Papa tradito'' (transl. ''Christopher Columbus and the betrayed Pope'') argues that since Innocent died shortly before the departure of [[Christopher Columbus]] on his presumedly first voyage over the Atlantic, this suggests that Columbus actually traveled before the known date and re-discovered the Americas for the Europeans before the supposed date of 12 October 1492.<ref>{{cite web |first= Nicolò |last=Carnimeo |publisher=ilfattoquotidiano.it2014 |url= http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/05/19/haiti-i-dubbi-sul-ritrovamento-della-santa-maria-di-colombo/# |title=Haiti, i dubbi sul ritrovamento della Santa Maria di Colombo (Doubts over the finding of the Santa Maria of Colombo)|date=19 May 2014 |access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref>

At some point the pope's coat of arms was replaced with an inscription, and the position of the two images of Innocent switched. After completion of the nave of the new basilica, in 1621 the monument was dismantled and relocated courtesy of Innocent's great nephew, Alberico Cybo Malaspina, prince of Massa, duke of Ferentillo, and marquis of Carrara.<ref name=osv/> 

"The monument does have some historical inaccuracies, as already widely noted by the critics...":<ref name=osv/> "Ciibo" instead of "Cibo", "vixit" instead of "sedit", the date of death as "1497" instead of "1492", a reference to the "Crucis Ssancro Santi; in addition, a reference to Bayezid as Imper(atore) scratched out and replaced with "Tyrant", any of which could have taken place during the reconstruction.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1163/9789004226432_017 |chapter=Responding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in Rome (1587–1588) |title=The Authority of the Word |year=2012 |pages=533–558 |isbn=978-9004226432 |last1=De Jong |first1=Jan L. }}</ref><ref name=osv>{{cite web| url = http://stpetersbasilica.info/Monuments/InnocentVIII/InnocentVIII.htm| title = "St. Peter's Basilica – A Virtual Tour", ''Our Sunday Visitor'', 1999}}</ref>