Stories
- In pictures
Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania
How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.
- In pictures
Sex and syphilis
Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.
- Article
The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
- Article
Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
Catalogue
- Books
Italian cookery weeks 1997.
Date: 1997- Books
Italian psychology and Jewish emigration under Fascism : from Florence to Jerusalem and New York / Patrizia Guarnieri.
Guarnieri, Patrizia, 1954-Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 3 August 1743Reference: MS.5863/7Part of: Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century- Archives and manuscripts
Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1604-1805Reference: MS.5863/17Part of: Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century- Archives and manuscripts
Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 3 July 1743Reference: MS.5863/6Part of: Italian Medical Miscellany, 18th Century
