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>"Carved" in the wall above the skeleton is an inscription: "IO FU[I] G[I]A QUEL CHE VOI S[I]ETE E QUEL CH['] I[O] SONO VO[I] A[N]C[OR] SARETE" (I once was what you are and what I am you also will be).
That's a very common medieval meme
Lots of late medieval/renaissance portraits have people sitting with skulls somewhere in the room with them, sometimes with the portrait subject pointing to it as though warning their descendants, "You forget this and you're ruining your life"