Histories of a plague year
Subtitle: the social and the imaginary in baroque Florence
By: Giulia Calvi ; translated by Dario Biocca and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. ; with a foreword by Randolph Starn.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ;; [8]
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Plague -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 17th century.
Description: By focusing on the plague of 1630-1633 in the city of Florence, Giulia Calvi presents an innovative approach to understanding how Florentines constructed a multitude of discourses designed to instill meaning and order in their tumultuous social universe.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 287-288.
Translation of: Storie di un anno di peste.