Libro Secondo (second part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — modernised text.
Libro Secondo (second part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — original text.
Libro Primo (first part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — modernised text.
Libro Primo (first part) of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — original text.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — English translation.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — modernised text.
Frontispiece and dedication of “Il Gran Contagio di Verona” by Francesco Pona (1631) — 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.
The plague doctor with the beaked mask might not have much to do with Venice — that figure is more likely to be French.
Full transcription of the Venetian text from the publication “Capitoli Da osservarsi nelli Lazaretti”, from 1674.