Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy Yelena P. Wu Louis Betts

Louis Betts

the German onslaught crests against the furious counterattacks of a Red Army rising from its ruins

Mendoza-de Jesus endangers this idealization by drawing attention to the abjection that sustains our attachments to ipseity as the form of a truly sovereign life

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Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy Yelena P. Wu Louis BettsAfter the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative and executive powers were established to administer all public health matters. In this volume, Carlo M.