Talk:Lazzaretto of Ancona

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I wrote the final paragraph as thus: ''It is not clear why a pentagonal shape was chosen for the building. It does however reflect a rationalistic and functional approach to architecture; and in this case, an enlightened plan for a less enlightened aim of segregating the elements of the populace that could be viewed as pestilent.''

I might say that the ensemble represents a rationalistic and functional approach to architecture The phrase an enlightened plan for a less enlightened aim of segregating the elements of the populace that could be viewed as pestilent was removed because such a place was needed (example used) to prevent bubonic plague from spreading, which was a real threat.

I don't agree. Bubonic plague outbreaks were rare by the time the Lazzaretto was built. Nor have I heard that leprosariums were used for isolating persons with such illness. Bubonic plague is an acute illness, which in medieval times killed fast. It was not feasible to isolate affecteds easily. They sickened indoors with fevers, and became prostrate soon. Plagues of Cholera and Typhoid did affect some port towns such as Naples in the 19th century, and it is possible that attempts were made to prevent affected sailors from entering the community. However, the leprosarium was not used for that purpose. This was not a quarantine station in its inception.

It was used to take people from the community and abscond them into a moated site. The disease of Leprosy is a slow, visible disease, whose skin findings often lead to to the afflicted being turned out from home and village. I think the statement that it was less enlightened applies, since it is not clear that this isolation helped diminish the spread of disease, in an age when the germ theory of disease was unknown. I am going to be bold and re-introduce the sentence.Rococo1700 (talk) 03:12, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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