A Deconstructionist Last Laugh

I understand that deconstructionists would blanch at an effort to bring the face of Petrarch back to his poetry, but isn’t this going just a bit too far?

From an article titled “Poet Lost His Head, Italian Scientists Say” in zoomata.com:

Poets may have a better connection between head and heart than most, but 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch may have been separated forever from his skull.

Scientists, who dug him up in November 2003 in hopes of learning more about one of the most prolific bards of the Italian Renaissance, discovered after DNA testing that the skull found in his tomb most likely belongs to a woman.

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Petrarch's exhumation was timed in order that he might 'star' in celebrations for the 700th anniversary of his birth in November 2004. Scientists wanted to reconstruct his face and determine his age, diet and general health. There was no immediate comment from officials about how the fete might carry on if the poet's body remains headless.