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2026-04-20 13:30 UTC
I have made a translation of a Venetian letter from 1576, written during one of the worst plague epidemics ever to hit Venice, and I'm looking for proof-readers of the English text.
The letter is a first-hand eyewitness account of a very severe plague epidemic in Venice, written by a person in the middle of the storm. It describes how the plague arrived, how the state and the population reacted, and what was done to counter the epidemic.
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@seindal@mastodon.uno 2026-04-20 13:31
The plague of 1575–77 killed 50–60k of a population three times that. One in three residents of the city of Venice died. The author, Rocco Benedetti, was a notary. He therefore had many contacts in the upper echelons of Venetian society, but also in the lower classes, as he had to take down last wills and testaments of the dying. He consequently circulated freely in the city during the epidemic, even during the repeated lockdowns. 2/2