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The 1576 Plague of Milan was an experience of crucial importance in the life of Carlo Borromeo, whose tireless efforts to implement the policies of the Council of Trent found a golden opportunity for the redevelopment of his city in the catastrophic circumstances it was enduring. Bearing witness to it all were the voices of the chroniclers of the time, in their plain and direct writing style: allowing, on the one hand, to reconstruct the Saint's work in its progress; and, on the other hand, to observe the new narrative strategies of the urban universe at the height of the plague. By taking a look at one such chronicle, i.e. Paolo Bisciola's Relazione verissima della Peste di Milano, the present study aims at giving a taste of the ways in which contemporaries wrote of the renovation Milan's urban landscape in the wake of catastrophe.

The 1576 Plague of Milan was an experience of crucial importance in the life of Carlo Borromeo, whose tireless efforts to implement the policies of the Council of Trent found a golden opportunity for the redevelopment of his city in the catastrophic circumstances it was enduring. Bearing witness to it all were the voices of the chroniclers of the time, in their plain and direct writing style: allowing, on the one hand, to reconstruct the Saint's work in its progress; and, on the other hand, to observe the new narrative strategies of the urban universe at the height of the plague. By taking a look at one such chronicle, i.e. Paolo Bisciola's Relazione verissima della Peste di Milano, the present study aims at giving a taste of the ways in which contemporaries wrote of the renovation Milan's urban landscape in the wake of catastrophe. ; L'esperienza della peste milanese del 1576 è stata un momento centrale nella vita di Carlo Borromeo, che, nel suo costante tentativo di mettere in atto le politiche del Concilio di Trento, ha trovato proprio nella catastrofe una via d'accesso privilegiata alla riqualificazione della sua città. Testimoni sono le voci dei cronisti dell'epoca, che, attraverso una scrittura scarna e immediata, permettono da un lato di ricostruire l'azione del Santo, e, dall'altro, di osservare le nuove strategie di narrazione dell'universo urbano durante l'infuriare della peste. Attraverso la lettura della Relazione verissima della peste di Milano di Paolo Bisciola, questo studio ambisce a offrire un assaggio delle modalità con cui sia avvenuta la trascrizione del rinnovato volto urbano di Milano grazie al manifestarsi della catastrofe.