“The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. It brings about the cruelest end of all deaths. Hunger is a disease that torments with slowness, a pain that endures, a sickness that lasts, and is hidden in the bowels. Since it consumes the natural humor the heat becomes cold, the bodily form is consumed and strength is weakened little by little. The flesh becomes thin, the vermillion disappears from the blood. The voice is weak and feeble, the eyes weakened and without their natural support in the cavities sunken in the sockets like dried nuts in their skins. The torments of hunger force many to cross the limits of nature, that is to feed on the bodies of people related by blood or friendship and mothers who give birth to children only to put them back into the womb with horror.”
And this episode dives into famine poverty with emotions and icky feelings. Expect analysis next episode. The idea is that the miracle stopped and defeated famine and poverty. This is what its enemies want to bring back.
The focus here is Italy in the 16th century, but goes as far afield as France in the 17th century.
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