Mario Lanza: A Fatal Zest for Living
by Armando Cesari and Philip A. Mackowiak, MD

This article first appeared in The Pharos, November 2010. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the authors and The Pharos. 

Note: A 2011 interview with co-author Philip Mackowiak can be heard below or read here. In this fascinating interview, Prof. Mackowiak discusses a number of the historical clinico-pathological cases that he has worked on, including the death of Mario Lanza. (The Lanza segment begins at 7:27.)
Mario Lanza, Tenor