lazaretti
English
Noun
lazaretti
- plural of lazaretto
- 1981, Carlo M. Cipolla, quoting Father Antero, “Chapter 1. Theory, Observation, and Policy”, in Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 13:
- Reader take pity on me, in the greatest of my sufferings. I can swear to you that all the bodily torments which are of necessity suffered in the lazaretti cannot compare even to the fleas, for they do not leave me even in the coldest depths of winter.
- 1986, Ann G. Carmichael, “Conclusion”, in Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge History of Medicine), Cambridge University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 127:
- It is probable that from their inception the lazaretti did not house all plague victims.
- 2010, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., “9. Plague Psychology”, in Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275:
- The lazaretti need to be kept clean and tidy and not left with dead bodies locked inside. Rubbish and filth must be regularly and immediately removed and the rooms perfumed daily or ‘even more than once a day’. He then discussed in detail the types of perfumes and how to dispense them in the lazaretti. Finally, like Ingrassia, he discussed the architectural organization and construction of the lazaretti, the need for different rooms to treat different types of patients.