Florence Surviving the Plague (1630-1631)
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In 1629, a plague swept through Italy. The city of Florence, which was hit by the plague, was neither littered with corpses nor massacres targeting marginalized groups. The fatality rate was much lower than that of other Italian cities. Historian John Henderson goes beyond the traditional narrative of the opposition between rich and poor, and uses interdisciplinary research in demography, medicine, society, art, etc. To turn boring data into vivid historical facts. From the diaries of eyewitnesses, correspondence between government officials, court trial records, voluntary group records and other original archival documents, he restores how Florentines chose between prejudice and conscience, law and emotion, private interests and public interests in order to survive.
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