Pub Date: November 30, 2010
Dewey: 614.54720945
LCCN: 2010042403
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 8.70" L x 5.70" W ( 0.97 lbs) 202 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | Europe | Italy | Modern | 16th Century | 17th Century | Social History | Medical | Forensic Medicine
Description: A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.