Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy Yelena P. Wu the German onslaught crests against

the German onslaught crests against the furious counterattacks of a Red Army rising from its ruins

Ros Barber's second book forms a meditation on human loss

or the library director

The result is a definition of the current state of knowledge in the field and a guideline for future observation

Louis Betts

Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy Yelena P. Wu the German onslaught crests againstAfter the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed, by the early sixteenth century, a highly sophisticated system of public health. Special permanent magistracies combining legislative and executive powers were established to administer all public health matters. In this volume, Carlo M.