A monk visiting the victims of the great plague of Milan in 1630; an episode in Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.

Selected images from this work

Alessandro Manzoni, 'I promessi sposi', chap 35, p. 305

[Milan?] : [publisher not identified] ([Milan?]: Litografia Ricordi)

1 print : lithograph ; image 31.3 x 43.3 cm

"Tu vedi! disse il frate, con voce bassa e solenne" Manzoni cap. XXXV. pag. 305. Milano. Gallo Gallina. Bears number lower centre "No. 343"

For further information see: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pp. 175-182

Wellcome Collection 6413i

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