LECTURE: John Henderson, "Filth is the mother of corruption". Plagues, Putrefaction and the Body of the Poor in Early Modern Florence

Thursday 22 May
Lecture Room - 6pm

John Henderson will evoke contemporary perceptions of the environment, of smells, sewage and corrupt air, in early modern Italy, with special emphasis on the outbreak of plague in 1629-1633 and its effect on Florence as capital of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Mr. Henderson is a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

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