Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy

by Carlo M. Cipolla

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299083446
• ISBN13: 9780299083441
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"