Between the 15th and the 19th century, Venice’s reformed its quarantine system on the lazaretto model in view of its unequal successes in dealing with plague epidemics.
Lesbianism is considered in the 17th and nineteenth19th centuries, both as a physical and behavioural pathology.
In 1804, the outbreak of a suspicious disease in Livorno led to strong tensions between the Italian states.
Patients and physicians hold conflicting political and scientific views on the existence of an emerging disease caused by tick bites.
The re-naming of an illness is as much a political act as a scientific one, as shown by the case of lypemania
