THE GREAT EPIDEMIC OF VERONA
In Sixteen-hundred and thirty.

Described

BY FRANCESCO PONA
Philosopher Authorised Doctor

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MOST EXCELLENT
LORD
PIETRO CORRARO
CAPTAIN

IN VERONA MDCCXXVII

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For the Brothers Merli, printers for the Apostolic Chamber
With permission of the Superiors.

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Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Lord.

I represent on the Stage of History, as a document for Posterity, the miserable tragedy of the Epidemic, whose wounds are still bloody. The appearance of those pages is so horrid, that if they do not shake off some part of the painful fog that surrounds them, I’m diffident that any eye will be able to look at them. Therefore, I raise them to the clearest light of Your splendid reverent Purple, so that touched by Its august rays, and made illustrious by the Name of a Senator so great, and conspicuous for every eminent condition, they remain more serene, that they encourage hearts to undertake and continue reading; and so that the work thus recommended to Fame, finds immortal Life in the remembered Deaths of so many, so many indeed. May You benignly consent to that grace; & to You, the Author of Graces, a long life, accompanied by the most happy events.

At home, on October 30th, 1631.

To You Most Illustrious Excellence

True and Most Humble Servant

Francesco Pona.

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