On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Paul M. Cahen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Ms. Lorenza,

This short text may also be of help:

The operative theory is that the sailors of the several voyages of Columbus contracted the disease and brought it back to Spain. Charles VIII of France subsequently invaded Italy in the late 15^th Century with a pan-European mercenary army of thousands and eventually besieged Naples, which was defended by Spaniards. When the war was over, the army was demobilized with the new and mysterious affliction initially called "the Great Pox" spread throughout Europe. Due to its provenance in Naples or France, syphilis has variously been known by the epithets the "Neapolitan Disease" or the "French Disease."

http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/Sassafras_101002.htm

Regards,

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