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I Promessi Sposi (Ch. 31), by Alessandro Manzoni

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Mar 30, 2022 • 35m

"I Promessi Sposi," a seventeenth century novel, vividly describes the devastating plague of Milan. Then whole families sickened in a few hours and died in less than a day's time of strange and violent complaints whose symptoms were unknown to physicians. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)

Capuchin monks given charge of the plague hospital in Milan, March 30, 1630.

 

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