Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Carlo M. Cipolla, professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author or editor of a number of books. Among those related to the present topic are Cristofano and the Plague (California, 1973), Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance (Cambridge, 1976), and Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany (Cornell, 1979).

“Three interesting essays on Renaissance plague epidemiology, Renaissance diplomacy in early international control of plague, and a case study of the impact of plague on Pistoia in 1630–31.”—John Norris, Bulletin of the History of Medicine