May 26, 2020 • 5 mins
Listen to John Henderson on what an extraordinary image evoking what it was like to live through plague in Renaissance Florence, the subject of his new book Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019), and Yale have made a chapter available here https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2020/04/24/surviving-plague-an-extract-from-florence-under-siege/
IMAGE CREDIT
Luigi Baccio del Bianco, The Plague in Florence in 1630 (pre-1657), Venerabile Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze. akg-images / Rabatti & Domingie.
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