Over the years, I have written quite a bit about the plague and how the Republic of Venice tried to manage it. This is a complete list of all the plague related articles, podcast episodes, newsletters, chronologies, and sources, both in the original and translated. Narrative I’ve told the story of the plague in Venice…
Translation of a document from 1584 recounting the start of the plague of 1575, translated by RenΓ© Seindal.
Libro Secondo (second part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β modernised text.
Libro Secondo (second part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β original text.
Libro Primo (first part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β modernised text.
Libro Primo (first part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β original text.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β English translation.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β modernised text.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) β original text.
A doctor’s eyewitness account of the plague epidemic in Verona in 1630, which killed some 60% of the population of the city.