Ruiz Vega, Paloma (Author)
In this paper we describe some features concerning plague epidemics in the middle ages, from the fall of Rome at the hands of the Goths in the year 476, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, commonly considered respectively the beginning and the end of the Middle Ages. The Black Death refers to the most devastating plague pandemic in human history that stroke Eurasia in the fourteenth century with a peak between 1347 and 1353, frequently recurring in the following centuries. The black plague wiped out a third of Europe’s population and recurred in successive waves until 1490, eventually killing some 200 million people. However, in the Venetian colony of Ragusa, present day Dubrovnik (Croatia), which had a busy port for Mediterranean maritime traffic, the local Authorities adopted a clever and much less tyrannical method to try to stop the diffusion of the contagion. In 1377, the city rulers decided to impose a period of forty days of isolation to all travelers, crews and products that landed there. To our knowledge, this is the first historically documented example of a quarantined city.
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