Tuscan Traveler’s Tales – Pandemics in Italy, Today and in the Past

In this time of pandemic, a study of previous epidemics in Tuscany and Italy shows many similarities of successful disease management and dismal failures. Surprisingly, not much has changed in a thousand years. Ferrara was ahead of its time in 1630 The Black Plague (bubonic plague) ravaged large cities and provincial towns in northern and […]