The sixteenth-century struggle to balance biological and economic well-being implicated a surprising number of authorities, but not everyone accepted their discipline. Matthew Vester explores in Pandemic Politics During the Renaissance.
Tag: Italy
Renaissance Lockdown: How Venice tried to control the plague
With Italy on the frontline of Europe’s Coronavirus outbreak, Rosa Salzberg examines how Renaissance Venice established world-leading measures to combat the plague, strategies we are still relying on today.
Radical Objects: Radical and Less Radical Effigies of Garibaldi
The Italian patriot and exile, Giuseppe Garibaldi, enjoyed legendary fame in mid-Victorian Britain. Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe explores some artefacts from this period that bear his image
The Fall of Berlusconi
Claudia Baldoli looks at the parallels between the downfalls of the two most high profile Italian political leaders of the last century.
