Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city

1 Plague and public health in Italy and Europe

2 The invasion of plague in early modern Italy

3 Medicine, the environment and the poor

4 Treating the body of the city and the body of the poor

5 The impact of plague and quarantine

Part II Religion, isolation and survival / 6 Religion in the time of plague

7 Lazaretti and isolation: 'More feared than death itself'?

8 Surviving plague

9 Epilogue: The return and end of plague, 1632-3.