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Cultures of Plague (Book)

Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr (Author), Samuel K. John (Author)

Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations [...]

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