mediterranean – History Health & Healing

Captive Healthscapes: Slavery, Medicine, and Health in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World (hybrid workshop)

Workshop on December 18, 2025: CAPTIVE HEALTHSCAPES: SLAVERY, MEDICINE, AND HEALTH IN THE PRE-MODERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD Hybrid event: online (email valentina.pugliano@unive.it for a link) and in person (Ca’ Foscari, Palazzo…

The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered. The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean

By Chiara Lacroix

Marina Inì This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean. Quarantine and quarantine centres (also called lazzaretti in Italian vernacular) were considered essential to…