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Four Hundred Years of Quarantine
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Mar 30, 2020
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Description
Erin Maglaque talks to Thomas Jones about the lockdown imposed by the city of Florence in January 1631 in response to a plague outbreak, the similarities with our current situation, and the differences.Maglaque wrote about the plague in Florence in a recent issue of the LRB, reviewing Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson.Read her piece here: https://lrb.me/maglaquepodRead Tom's piece on Italy and the coronavirus pandemic: https://lrb.me/jonesitalypodSubscribe to the LRB for just £12 for 12 issues: https://lrb.me/pod For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 30, 2020
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Podcast episode
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