Venice, as a trading center ... There, doctors, wearing the elaborate beak-like plague masks of the period, did their best to treat the disease. Fewer structures remain on Nuovo. Historical records, ...

In Venice, a particular plague epidemic ... unsure about keeping infected people together. The famous beaked plague doctor mask wasn’t widely used until the 17th Century, but Venetians were ...

Not quite. It was more than a century ago during the Manchurian plague, when masks were taking their place as the most visible tool of epidemic control. Then as now, geopolitics and distrust of ...

Venice, as a trading center ... There, doctors, wearing the elaborate beak-like plague masks of the period, did their best to treat the disease. Fewer structures remain on Nuovo. Historical records, ...