Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Name: Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy
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ISBN: 9780299083441

ISBN-10: 0299083446

ISBN-13: 9780299083441

Edition: 1981

Authors: Carlo M. Cipolla

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After 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. Cipolla throws new light on the subject, utilizing newly uncovered and significant archival material. In the first essay, the author analyzes the complex set of interrelationships that existed between theory and practice in Renaissance…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 2/15/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English