The exhibition explores the impact of epidemic pellagra on the people of Italy during the late nineteenth century, as a tragic result of a diet based around maize polenta that affected several hundred thousand people, mostly poor peasants, leading to insanity in its latter stages.
The exhibition is part of the Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930 research project, generously funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and based at the University of Leicester. The project’s Principal Investigator is Professor David Gentilcore, and the Research Assistant is Mr Egidio Priani.
For more information on the research project visit:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/history/research/grants/rough-skin
Date:
De Martes, Junio 7, 2016 hasta Domingo, Julio 31, 2016
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Price:
Free