Surviving Plague, John Henderson

Listen to John Henderson on what an extraordinary image evoking what it was like to live through plague in Renaissance Florence, the subject of his new book Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019), and Yale have made a chapter available here https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2020/04/24/surviving-plague-an-extract-from-florence-under-siege/ IMAGE CREDIT Luigi Baccio del Bianco, The Plague in Florence in 1630 (pre-1657), Venerabile Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze. akg-images / Rabatti & Domingie.