Medicine and religion: fighting the plague
The Middle Ages did not lack remedies and treatments against plague. Between religion and herbs, here’s how people fought against it in the past
A Short story of “Vigna Murada”: the Lazzaretto Novo (the new leper hospital)
The island of the Lazzaretto Novo is located in the North lagoon of Venice. From 1468 it hosted the ships suspected to carry infectious diseases
The Lazzaretto Vecchio (the old leper hospital)
The island of the Lazzaretto Vecchio is located in Venice’s lagoon close to Lido. Established by the Serenissima in 1423, it’s Europe’s first leper hospital
The Lazzaretti: The vanguard of Venice in the health management of the city
In the seaside towns the Lazzaretti (leper hospitals) were closed or isolated places where people and goods suspected to be infectious were confined
