Quarantena e isolamento domiciliare. Palermo durante la peste del 1624

During the plague of 1624-1626 in Palermo, the rulers identified the guiding lines and established the rules to build a surveillance and confinement system throughout the territory. The system was centered on lazarettos but decentralized to hospitals, convents, and private homes. The present investigation is directed to the reconstruction of imposition of quarantine and home confinement that affected a group of inhabitants of the city, to the modalities of identification and control of the recipients of the restrictive measures and to the strategies attempted by the authorities to involve the population in the surveillance operations.