Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence by Giulia Calvi
Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence
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Giulia Calvi
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Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence

Giulia Calvi

288 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Since 1945, historians have quite successfully uncovered what everyday life was like for the popular classes of pre-industrial Europe. How these people made sense of their lives, however, has proven to be more elusive. By focusing on the plague of...

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