"I would certainly never call it a plague" : linguistic reflections of contagion
riflessi linguistici del contagio
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Authors
Type
Journal Article
Year
2023
Language
English
Abstract
This contribution reflects on the way epidemic contagion was described in the Renaissance, using as sources the vernacular plague treatises published in Italy between the 15th and 16th centuries; in the last part, some considerations are made regarding the linguistic repercussions of the 2020 Covid epidemic.
Keywords
History of Italian language, Specialist languages, Renaissance, Medicine, Plague
Journal
Altre Modernità
Volume
12
Pages (or article number)
53-59
Diffusion
License
CC BY-SA
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Gold
