Tag: Plague
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Latest news from Venice
The letter of Rocco Benedetti, to Giacomo Foscarini, from January 1577, translated from the Venetian.
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Appendix E — Biographies
Short biographies of some of the important persons mentioned in Benedetti’s letter.
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Appendix D — Venetian society
The Republic of Venice was a class society, with an economy based on international trade and manufacturing.
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Appendix C — The Republic of Venice
Rocco Benedetti lived and worked in the Republic of Venice, and he mentions quite a few of the republic’s institutions. This appendix serves to give a quick overview of those bodies.
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Appendix B — Humours and Miasma
The prevalent ideas in the 1500s of what constituted health and disease, originated in Ancient Greece and Rome, with Hippocrates and Galen.
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Appendix A — What is the plague?
The epidemic which struck Venice in 1575 was an outbreak of yersinia pestis — the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague.
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Rocco Benedetti — an introduction
Introduction of Rocco Benedetti, the manuscripts, the story, and the translation.
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Decline and fall (1600–1800)
The 1600s and 1700s were a period of slow decline for Venice, until the Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon in 1797.
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Changing geography (1400–1600)
The 1400s and 1500s were centuries of enormous change for Venice, and for the rest of the world. The changing geography moved Venice from a central position in European trade to the margins.