Engineered Isolation: Quarantine Architecture and Lazaretto Infrastructure in the Venice Outer Lagoon Venice’s outer lagoon harbours one of history’s most consequential experiments in built public health. For more than four centuries, the islands of Lazzaretto Vecchio and Lazzaretto Nuovo served as the operational nodes of a quarantine system that became […]
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The Walls of Isolation: The Coastal Architecture and Sanitary Engineering of the Lazzaretto di San Jacopo Livorno
The Walls of Isolation: The Coastal Architecture and Sanitary Engineering of the Lazzaretto di San Jacopo Authorized by Grand Duke Ferdinando II de’ Medici on 22 May 1643 and built on the Tyrrhenian shoreline of Livorno, the Lazzaretto di San Jacopo was one of the most technically developed maritime quarantine […]
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