The plague broke out in 1629 was the culmination of an incredible series of events very unpleasant place in those years in the Duchy of Milan. In fact there had been previously first famine, the war of succession to the throne of the Duchy of Mantua then. And the war has been the cause of this epidemic. In fact, the Duchy of Venice had hired to win the war, and then expand the domain to the realm of Mantua, a famous army of mercenaries, the Landsknecht, soldiers enjoyed a bad reputation, seeing where they spent bringing destruction, and, often, and willingly, and serious illnesses. Well, since Lanzichenecchi that came from 'Austria, arriving in Mantua doverono pass from Milan, and took the opportunity to pillage, but unfortunately they left the plague. This terrible disease to 'start was not considered by anyone, but when he began to do the dead people began to wonder what it was. Some have cried to the plague, the governor, however, classified as a normal "pestilential fever", almost a trifle. But now the plague had taken root among the people of Milan, helped by poor sanitation and famine. So many people died, and we finally decided to take precautions. The city still is not infected were isolated and none was made enter, but in Milan the situation was now infected sharply. In fact there was medicine for fever, if you walked into the middle, or healed or died. In most cases, however, we remained dry. The plague, then it is highly contagious, and you can take just touching the clothes of the sick, and then just spreads like wildfire through the undergrowth. And so it was for Milan. The Church, have the opposite effect, made the long processions and rituals, but had the opposite effect to that intended: in fact, gathering together all those people, and not infected, the epidemic will spread, and Milan was in the throes of fever. Were set up so the hospitals, infirmaries, where they tried to treat the terminally ill, a special body immune to the plague called "Monatti," who were paid to carry away the bodies from the houses and burying them in mass graves. They, however, often took advantage of their authority, and robbed the houses of the dead. For this reason, were seen by the wrong people. Then there was the rumor around the spreaders, people infected and anointed with oil the doors of the houses of citizens, infect. For this reason, many innocent people were killed, that, by behaving oddly or simply asking for particular things such as plague spreaders were taken and killed. The population of Milan while he was in the grip of this confusion, was decimated. Fortunately, after a few months, the fever went away as it was coming.
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