{"date":"March 30","id":"03-30","intro":["“I Promessi Sposi,” a seventeenth century novel, vividly describes the devastating plague of Milan. Then whole families sickened in a few hours and died in less than a day’s time of strange and violent complaints whose symptoms were unknown to physicians."],"minutes":26,"readings":[{"author":"Alessandro Manzoni","end":512,"start":500,"volume":21,"work":"I Promessi Sposi"}],"slug":"march-30","status":"proofread","title":"The Plague of Milan","url":"/harvard-classics/march-30/","words":5188}