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The Great Pox : The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
The Great Pox The French Disease in Renaissance Europe Author:Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, Roger French Sweeping across Renaissance Europe, the Great Pox brought to its victims on the continent a slow, agonizing, and disfiguring death. Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, this book is the first detailed account of the new plague-known to later generations as syphilis-and reactions to it in Italy, France, and Germany, where each society s... more »truggled to meet the challenges of the frightening new epidemic.« less