Editing Pope Clement VII (section)

==Death==
On 10 December 1533, Clement returned to Rome with a fever and complaining of stomach problems. Strathern writes of how he had been ill for months: "[he] was aging rapidly...his liver was failing and his skin turned yellow; he also lost the sight of one eye and became partially blind in the other."<ref name="Strathern"/> He was so ill at the beginning of August 1534 that Cardinal [[Agostino Trivulzio]] wrote to King Francis that the Pope's doctors feared for his life.<ref>Giuseppe Molini, ''Documenti di storia italiana'' Vol. II (Firenze 1837), p. 379, no. 398 (10 August 1534).</ref>

On 23 September 1534, Clement wrote a long letter of farewell to Emperor Charles.<ref>Gregorovius, Volume VIII, pp. 697-699.</ref> He also affirmed, just days before his death, that [[Michelangelo]] should paint ''[[The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)|The Last Judgment]]'' above the altar in the [[Sistine Chapel]].<ref name="newadvent.org" /> Clement VII died just two days later, on 25 September 1534,{{sfn|Reynolds|2016|p=161}} having lived 56 years and four months, reigning for 10 years, 10 months, and 7 days. His body was interred in [[Saint Peter's Basilica]], and later transferred to a tomb in [[Santa Maria sopra Minerva]] in Rome,{{sfn|Visceglia|2006|p=181}} which was designed by [[Baccio Bandinelli]].{{sfn|Hersey|1993|p=56}}

Clement's biographer [[Emmanuel Rodocanachi]] writes that "in accordance with the custom of those times, people attributed his death to poison"—specifically, poisoning by [[death cap mushroom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/list/7-of-the-worlds-most-poisonous-mushrooms|title=7 of the World's Most Poisonous Mushrooms|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref><ref name="wasson">{{cite journal |last=Wasson |first=Robert Gordon |title=The death of Claudius, or mushrooms for murderers |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31872#page/133/mode/1up |journal=Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University |volume=23 |issue=3 |page=110|year=1972 |issn=0006-8098 |s2cid=87008723 |doi=10.5962/p.168556 |doi-access=free}}, who completely rejects the theory of poison.</ref> Clement's symptoms and the length of his illness do not, however, support the hypothesis that he had been poisoned with death cap mushroom.<ref name="wasson" />