A FEW COLLECTED OBSERVATIONS ON PLAGUE

摘要

The article on "Medieval Epidemics" by Estelle Brodman in the BULLETIN (1) contains an informative and entertaining account of the visitation of the plague in Europe. In an earlier number of this same publication, (2) Thomas E. Keys has reprinted many classical descriptions of the plague in literature. These two articles have recalled to me a visit to the church of San Rocco in Venice in 1928. This church was built as a votive offering to that plague saint in gratitude for the relief of Venice from this peril, and it contains paintings by Tintoretto depicting plague scenes. These paintings show the various signs of the disease as enumerated in Directions for the Searchers during the Great Plague in London in 1665.