Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.

Date:
[between 1656 and 1659?]
Reference:
10133i
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Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Episodes 1-43 and A-G

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [Gio. Giacomo De Rossi], [between 1656 and 1659?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 41.4 x 51.7 cm

Lettering

Extensive engraved annotations in Italian

Notes

One of three such sheets of etchings recording sanitary measures taken under Girolamo Gastaldi (1616-1685), from 1657 Commissario Generale per la Salute in the city of Rome, subsequently a cardinal and archbishop of Benevento. One of the sheets is headed: "Ordini diligenze e ripari fatti con universal beneficio dalla paterna pietà di N.S.PP. Alesandro VII et emin.mi SS. Card.li della S. Congr.ne della sanità per liberare la città di Roma dal contagio. Inventati e date in luce da Gio. Giacomo De Rossi in Roma alla Pace"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10133i

Contents

Top row (episodes 1-7): the lazaretti of San Pancratio, de'Spagnoli, San Eusebio, San Giuliano and San Vito
Second row (episodes 8-19): fumigating books and rescuing of valuables; the lazaretto dei Portoghesi near Saint John Lateran; Saint John Lateran itself and nearby buildings; the Ospedale di Santo Spirito with dogs and cats taken to be thrown into the river; the Salita San Onofrio and another Ospedale di Santo Spirito at its foot
Third row (episodes 20-26): the Sannesio vineyard outside the city where property is cleaned or burned; a lazaretto in the Casaletto di Pio V; the Antoniana (ancient ruins) where wool was dried
Fourth row (episodes 27-35): places outside the city where cloth was taken to be cleaned
Bottom row (episodes 36-43 and A-G): beheading, hanging, flogging etc. of people who had disobeyed the health edicts; the Porta Portese and the river Tiber with guards preventing unlicensed boats from entering on the river; the river at Fiumicino where ships entering the river from the sea are controlled, in order to allow necessary goods to enter Rome

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