Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis

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Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World (2017, background): “For Tuscany, Alfani and Francesco Ammannati (2017) discovered further evidence of a decline in inequality following the epidemic.”
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks (2020, background): “In the 16th and 17th centuries, outbreaks of plague frequently rav-aged large parts of Europe ( Alfani, 2013 ) and also hit Amsterdam.”
Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: A long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) (2015, background): “Additionally when, during the seventeenth century, Italy was struck by particularly severe plague epidemics (Alfani 2013b), their changes to land ownership were kept in check by deicommissa and similar institutions.”