Participant Info

First Name
Marina
Last Name
Inì
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
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Keywords
Early Modern Mediterranean, History of Medicine, Plague, Quarantine
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About Me

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. My project focuses on lazzaretti – quarantine centres – in the Mediterranean area during the early modern period. As lazzaretti were used as permanent quarantine stations for people and goods on the move, they were established above all in important trading centres and port cities along shipping routes in the Mediterranean region (Italian and Balkan peninsula, the Ionian Sea and south coast of France). They formed a system of nodal points collaborating in plague preventive measures while sharing information on epidemics, quarantine regulations and architectural models.

Recent Publications

Marina Inì ‘Materiality, Quarantine and Contagion in the Early Modern Mediterranean’, Social History of Medicine, hkaa124, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa124

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Italy, France, Adriatic area
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Medicine, Migration & Immigration