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

• Marie-Louise Leonard ^[1]
  1. [1] Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 224-226
• Idioma: inglés
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  • John Henderson, Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. xviii, 363 pp.: 50 col. ill. + 4 maps & 13 figs. £ 30. ISBN: 9780300196344.

    John Henderson’s Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City is a rich exposition of the Florentine response to a devastating plague epidemic in 1630–1631, and its brief resurgence in 1632–1633. It was one of the last epidemics of the early modern period where roughly 12 % of the city’s population of 75,000 perished. Since Florence Under Siege ...