Good Things From Italy - Le Cose Buone d'Italia

Many modern Internet sites claim that the person clad in a snow-white toga, bearing the likeness of Francesco Maria della Rovere (a favorite nephew of Pope Julius II, who became Duke of Urbino in 1508) depicted in the left foreground of "The School of Athens," was originally intended by Raphael to represent Hypatia of Alexandria. Unfortunately, there is no primary and/or objective evidence whatsoever to support this claim! Indeed, this is such a perfect example of fiction being made into fact, primarily due to the Internet [...]
Via Mariano Pallottini