Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture

1. Denying Disease: An Introduction 2. Diseased Bodies in Early Modern Europe: Picturing Plague Victims 3. Experiencing Transnational Health Challenges: The Safety/Commerce Dilemma in Italy’s Long Nineteenth Century 4. Exporting Epidemics: The Cholera of 1910–11 from Southern Italy to Libya—Denial, Causes and Consequences 5. Medical Mistrust and Contagious Disease in the Italian 1860s: Professor Angelo Scarenzio’s Neglected Therapy for Syphilis 6. The Insufficiency of Science: Skepticism, Polemic and Irony Towards Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italian Literature 7. “Fever Veiled in Mist”: Denying Contagious Diseases in Modern Italian Visual Arts 8. Masking Female Illness: Tuberculosis in Tigre Reale. 9. The Old, the Frail and the Misinformed: Cholera and Aging in Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971) 10. Tuberculosis, Queerness and Luxury Guests: The Hidden Stories of Capri’s Hotel Quisisana 11. Forgetting or Disguising? HIV/AIDS in the Italian Newspapers in the Twenty-First Century 12. The Italian National Health Service in a Time of Crisis: What Were the Responses for the Most Vulnerable People?