alute we have the typical plague churchof the city. It was built in gratitude to the Madonna ofHealth, who, so the Venetians believed, had freed them fromthe last and the greatest pestilence, that of 1631, which enduredfor sixteen months and carried off some 140,000 persons.Venice was particularly… … Jill. GKSUATl, VF.MCi: SESTIERE DI DORSODURO 145 the pestilence in his ninety-ninth year, she was hard put to itto carry on her government, so many died within her dominion.That attack in 1571, however, which had seen the building ofthe Redentore and the institution of a great festival and…
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