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DONATO, Maria Pia

DONATO, Maria Pia

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Sailko · Own work · CC BY 3.0

2014 CE

#9845

Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.

"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was …