What are the similarities, and what are the ruptures or discontinuities, between past epidemics and COVID-19? This is the question that underpins the talk that Franco Cardini, professor at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences in Florence and a member of the scientific council of the Advanced School of Historical Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, recently gave to the PhD students in Historical Sciences at the University of San Marino.
His analysis, approximately 120 minutes long, is now available to everyone on Usmaradio, a radio station that offers, among other things, a wide range of podcasts documenting much of the academic work being done on Titan.
Cardini himself, who joined the doctoral students securely via a web platform, introduced his lecture: "This is an attempt at comparative history on past and present epidemics. I'll discuss, for example, the Plague of Athens and other major epidemics."
The talk, titled "Is Comparativeism Possible? Black Death (1348) and Coronavirus (2020)," is part of the latest series of lectures held by the Department of History, Culture, and San Marino History from June 9 to 24. To listen, visit www.usmaradio.org and the podcast section.
