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Visual Culture and Public Health Posters with short vignettes of four visual culture and public health posters to the right of the words.

Isola Di S. Bartolomeo Lazzaretto Brutto

Vignettes of Rome during the plague of 1656: street scenes, hospitals, fumgation practices, removal of the dead, quarantine of patients in prisons, and mass burials are depicted here.

Title:Isola Di S. Bartolomeo Lazzaretto Brutto/ Inventati e date in Luce Da Gio: Giacomo De Rossi in Roma.
Date: 1657
Copyright Information: This item is in the public domain.

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