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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
Faith Reason and the Plague in SeventeenthCentury Tuscany
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla, Muriel Kittel (Translator)
By the late fall of 1630, the Black Plague had descended upon northern Italy. The prentice Magistry of Public Health, centered in Florence, took steps to contain and combat the scourge. In this essay, Carlo Cipolla recreates the daily struggle of plague-stricken Monte Lupo, a rustic Tuscan village, revealing in the vivid terms of actual events a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393000450
ISBN-10: 0393000451
Publication Date: 6/1981
Pages: 113
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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