Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson

Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

John Henderson

376 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, ...

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