Twenty new works by Michelangelo Buonarroti, previously little-known or of uncertain authenticity, have now been linked to the Renaissance artist. This, as reported by the newspaper Il Messaggero, is the result of the work of independent Roman researcher Valentina Salerno, who in her study "Michelangelo The Last Days" reconstructed the final period of Buonarroti's life by comparing dozens of documents from various Italian and foreign archives. She discovered that Michelangelo did not destroy the hundreds of sketches, drawings, sculptures, and sketches he had in his Roman home, as was long believed. Instead, the artist entrusted his students and friends with the task of securing his works in a secret location. "One of the recovered documents describes the existence of a room where valuables were hidden," the researcher explained to the Roman newspaper, "which contained material so precious that it required a multiple-key system to open it." However, "it has been empty for over 400 years." Thus begins the hunt for Michelangelo's missing works, which will now be more easily traced back to him.