Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PLATES, MAPS, FIGURES AND TABLES ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS, CURRENCY, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES xiv
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvi
6. 1. Plague and Public Health in Italy and Europe 1
7. PART I. FLORENCE UNDER SIEGE COPING WITH PLAGUE
8. 2. The Invasion of Plague in Early Modern Italy 23
9. 3. Medicine, the Environment and the Poor 51
10. 4. Treating the Body of the City and the Body of the Poor 84
11. 5. The Impact of Plague and Quarantine 118
12. PART II. RELIGION, ISOLATION AND SURVIVAL
13. 6. Religion in the Time of Plague 149
14. 7. Lazaretti and Isolation: ‘More feared than death itself’? 183
15. 8. Surviving Plague 229
16. 9. Epilogue: The Return and End of Plague, 1632–3 277
17. NOTES 286
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 335
19. INDEX 346