Erschienen in:
01.08.2012 | Hospitals
The hospital in Bergamo between past and future: care and culture at the service of patients
verfasst von:
Vanna Toninelli, Federica Belli, Carlo Nicora
Erschienen in:
Journal of Medicine and the Person
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Ausgabe 2/2012
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Excerpt
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the main purpose of hospitals in Lombardy was to accommodate the poor and ill, often pilgrims, who gathered in the precincts of cathedrals and monasteries. Bergamo is no exception to this: there are already references to xenodochia close to churches more than 1,000 years ago—Sant’Alessandro in 958 and San Cassiano, in the precincts of the Cathedral of San Vincenzo, in 772. …