The book "CONDOMS AND CURATIVE DISCOURSES OF THE PLAGUE - With the way of purging the houses and the plague-stricken stuff" introduces us to the year that Turin was hit by the plague.
Due to significant documentary gaps, the plague that struck Turin between 1629 and 1630 is an event of which we still have fragmentary, partial and generic news. The edition of this short treatise by Cesare Mocca, Carlo Emanuele I's chamber physician, helps to illuminate at least a decade of the city's history. Besides for reasons of
Mocca's treatise constitutes an important testimony as regards seventeenth-century medical treatises due to the notable discrepancies with respect to the betrayed canon, in particular as regards the description and the etiopathogenesis of the disease and the treatment methods. Furthermore, Mocca's Discorsi are presented as a document of significant historical-linguistic value, both with respect to the practical uses of the vernacular in early seventeenth-century Turin and more generally with respect to the adoption of the vernacular in the medical language of the time.
Raffaella Safety shoes teaches Italian Linguistics at the University of Turin. He deals with literary stylistics, metrics, psychopathology of language. Among his most recent works: Secondo Novecento: language, style, metrics, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2011; Sonnet forms. The Italian tradition and the twentieth century, Rome, Carocci, 2012; The question of language. Anthology of texts from Dante to today, Rome, Carocci, 2012; you also edited the edition of Giorgio Caproni's Critical Prose, Torino Editore, 2012.
Library of the «Archivum Romanicum». Series I, Vol. 4132012, cm 17 ¥ 24, xxx-54 pp. and. Leo S. oLSchki
