Lazzaretto Nuovo

The Lazzaretto Nuovo was a quarantine station for the Black Plague since 1423. I worked as a guide in the museum at the Lazzaretto Nuovo for several years.

There are quite a few articles about the Venetian Lazzaretti on my History Walks Venice website and on the Venetian Stories podcast:

History Walks Venice

• The plague in Venice
  • A Chronology of the Black Plague in Venice
• The plague doctor
• The black plague – Yersinia Pestis
• Bad air will get you sick

• The Venetian Lazzaretti
• Lazzaretto Vecchio
  • A Chronology of Lazzaretto Vecchio
• Lazzaretto Nuovo – the first quarantine station
  • A Chronology of the Lazzaretto Nuovo
  • Antonio Moro and the Somachio
• Poveglia – more than ghost stories
  • Ne Fodias – Do not disturb!
• Quarantine – forty days of isolation
• The word Lazzaretto
• Festa del Redentore

Venetian Stories

• Episode 17 — Venice and the plague – part 1
• Episode 18 — Venice and the plague – part 2
• Episode 19 — Venice and the plague – part 3
• Episode 20 — Venice and the plague – part 4
• Episode 21 — The Plague Doctor

• 404 Doctor Not Found
• The Plague Stone of Poveglia
• Lazzaretto Vecchio – six centuries
• Quarantine in the 1600s
• Remembering the plague

Related sources

• The Justinian plague — Historia Langobardorum
• The start of the plague in 1575 — Cornelio Morello (1584)
• Francesco Sansovino — Venetia Descritta (1581)
  • Lazzaretto Nuovo
  • Lazzaretto Vecchio
• The plague in Verona, 1630 — Francesco Pona
• Capitoli Da osservarsi nelli Lazaretti — 1674

• Provveditori e Sopraprovveditori alla Sanità — ASV Indice
• Provveditori sopra la Sanità — Lessico Veneto
• Sanità — Dizionario

E-book for download

• Latest news from Venice, 1576 — an eyewitness account of the plague in 1575–1577 (e-book, PDF, online).