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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome Maria Pia Donato 1st edition
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.
210 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 18, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472418739 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 159 × 242 × 22 mm · 610 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Mazzei, Valentina |