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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome Maria Pia Donato
Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Maria Pia Donato
In 1705-1706, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI’s physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim’s salvation. The book that Lancisi subsequently published, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sud
240 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 14, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781032925905 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 453 g |