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A. A. (Angelo Antonio) Frari
1780–1865
Remembered as a physician who fought plague and shaped public health policy, this 19th-century writer brought practical medical experience to the page. His work connects disease history with the everyday realities of government, quarantine, and prevention.
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Della peste e della pubblica amministrazione sanitaria
by A. A. (Angelo Antonio) Frari
About the author
Born in 1780 in Šibenik, then part of the Republic of Venice, Angelo Antonio Frari became a respected physician, epidemiologist, and historian of medicine. He worked in Split as municipal physician and head of the lazaretto, a quarantine station central to controlling the spread of infectious disease.
Later, he served in Venice as protomedicus and went on to lead the Maritime Health Magistrate from 1835 to 1843. These roles placed him at the center of public health administration in an era when plague prevention, quarantine, and port health were matters of urgent public concern.
Frari is especially associated with writing on plague and sanitary administration, drawing on both medical knowledge and firsthand administrative experience. He died in Venice in 1865, leaving behind work that reflects the close link between medicine, government, and everyday life in the nineteenth century.