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Author Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606, author.

Title On pestilence : a Renaissance treatise on plague / Girolamo Mercuriale ; translated and with an introduction by Craig Martin
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

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Summary Physician Girolamo Mercuriale pronounced in On Pestilence that plague was characterized by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. His work appears here for the first time in English, with an introduction that places the work within the context of the history of medicine, and our own responses to epidemic disease
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2022)
Subject Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606. De pestilentia.
Plague -- Italy -- Padua -- History -- 16th century
Plague -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Plague
Italy -- Padua
Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Craig, 1972- translator, writer of introduction.
ISBN 9780812298178
0812298179
Other Titles De pestilentia. English