Apr 13, 2015
Origin of the word "lazzareto"- Origine del termine lazzareto
With other words the term “lazzareto” that means leper Hospital was born in Venice. During Middle Ages leprosy was pretty widepread and Venice as other cityies had to face the problem of the contagious. It was erroneously the lepreos people were nursed in the hospital of the the church of S. Lorenzo ( during Medieval time the religious congregations created and took care of the ill people); so it…
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