December 2020 – According to the Arts

Reading Rats, Lice and History During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic…for Pleasure

According to the art: This is a book to read for the charm, eloquence, erudition, humility, and humor it provides as much or more than the history of typhus covered.

Faith, Reason, and the Plague
in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

What These Works Say

According to the Art: Cipolla’s account of the bubonic plague striking Northern Italy in 1630 shows how epidemics drive people into opposing groups, in this case, Church and State. The 2020 pandemic shows that epidemics still drive people into opposing groups.