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title: PLAGUE IN MILAN - EXECUTION OF THE PLAGUE BLOODSPREADERS

subject date: 2012-10-14

caption: PLAGUE in Milan in 1630. The stages of the public execution of Gian Giacomo Mora, Guglielmo Piazza, and the other "plague spreaders," accused of having composed and spread pestilential ointments throughout the city. Detail of their exposure on the wheel and the burning (full in #32126). The methods of torture are described in detail on the plaque affixed behind the Infamous Column, along with the reason why it was erected on the site of Mora's barbershop. Popular print, Italy, 17th century

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 65035

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : XVI - XVII

image epoch: Seicento

licence: RM

subject century: XVI - XVII

subject epoch: Seicento

technique: Calcografia

id: 31477

file name: FSNgilardi_65035.jpg

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