1576 - 1577 San Carlo's Plague in Milan (1 gen 1576 anni – 4 dic 1577 anni)

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The terrible plague that struck the Milanese territory in the two-year period 1576-1577 is called the plague of San Carlo.

The infection occurred during the Milanese episcopate of San Carlo Borromeo who, in 1576, had obtained the extension of the Roman jubilee to Milan the previous year.
Great was the turnout in Milan of the faithful from the surrounding places, but the Milanese jubilee lasted only a few weeks: on April 17 the Spanish governor Antonio de Guzmán, worried about the cases of plague that occurred in Venice and Mantua, first limited the pilgrimages in then banning them definitively when the first episodes were recorded in Milan in July and on August 11 the plague became full-blown. While the Spanish governor and notables left the city for places considered healthier, the archbishop, then in Lodi, immediately returned to Milan and from that moment, with the authority of his office and symbol of militant Christianity, he went out of his way to bring relief to the sick by becoming the "only refreshment" of plague Milan.

The plague of San Carlo is mentioned in chapter XXXI of I "Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni as an antecedent of that, much more serious and described in the novel itself, which came down in Lombardy in 1630, when the archbishop of Milan was Cardinal Federico Borromeo, cousin of the same St. Charles.

The plague of San Carlo was depicted by the painter Cesare Nebbia in a famous fresco painted in 1604 in the main hall of the palace of the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia.

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