Italy is drawing on an artistic and literary tradition inspired by historic epidemics both to cope and to learn
As Italians confront the world’s deadliest outbreak of the coronavirus, under quarantine in their homes with no clear idea of when they will come out, not least among their resources is an unsurpassed heritage of plague culture.
From the mid-14th to the early 18th century, outbreaks of the plague varying in size from local epidemics to continental pandemics occurred roughly every five years in Europe, on average. According to Franco Mormando, a professor of Italian studies at Boston College who has studied the role of the...
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