Milan’s forgotten epidemic of summer 1629, a few months before the last great plague: An investigation into the possible cause

Massimo Galli; Letizia Oreni; Anna Lisa Ridolfo; Angelo Formenti; Ester Luconi; Patrizia Boracchi; Spinello Antinori; Elia Biganzoli; Folco Vaglienti

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279218

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Milan’s forgotten epidemic of summer 1629, a few months before the last great plague: An investigation into the possible cause

Massimo Galli ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: massimo.galli@unimi.it

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Letizia Oreni,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Anna Lisa Ridolfo,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-6219

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Angelo Formenti,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Ester Luconi,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Unit of Medical Statistics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, and DSRC, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Patrizia Boracchi,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Unit of Medical Statistics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, and DSRC, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Spinello Antinori,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Elia Biganzoli,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Unit of Medical Statistics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, and DSRC, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Folco Vaglienti

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of History and Historical Documentation Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4311-0168

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Milan’s forgotten epidemic of summer 1629, a few months before the last great plague: An investigation into the possible cause

Massimo Galli,
Letizia Oreni,
Anna Lisa Ridolfo,
Angelo Formenti,
Ester Luconi,
Patrizia Boracchi,
Spinello Antinori,
Elia Biganzoli,
Folco Vaglienti

Published: June 8, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279218

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