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Lorenzo Coccoli, « Rimedi contro le epidemie. I consigli di diritto europeo dei giuristi (secoli XIV-XVI) », Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, ID : 10670/1.g7h3ou
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Three allegoric images stood out from the frontispiece of Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia’s tract on the 1575-6 plague of Palermo: two bags full of money, some pyres, and a landscape grimly dominated by the well recognizable figures of two or three gallows. A couplet by one Maurizio Martelli helped make the message clearer: Lana, aura, et Linum captant contagia pestis / Ignis, furca, aurum sunt medicina mali. According to Ingrassia, fire, the gallows and money were in fact the main means to be use...