"Bandiera Gialla - Le epidemie e le cure nella storia, nella scienza, nell’arte” (Yellow Flag - Epidemics and cures in history, science, art) is the title of the great exhibition about pandemics produced and inaugurated by the University of Turin in collaboration with the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, the Teatro Regio of Turin and the Rai Teche company. The exhibition, which will remain open until March 5, 2023, is curated by Peppino Ortoleva, media historian and curator of museums and exhibitions, and is under the scientific direction of the Protector of UniTo Giulia Carluccio. The name "Yellow Flag" derives from the flag that since the seventeenth century has become the internationally recognized sign of contagious diseases, associated in particular with the ancient form of prevention of quarantine, which is still widely used. The exhibition is realized thanks to the contribution of a multidisciplinary scientific committee of scholars; the proposed path combines a historical itinerary that starts from the period of the "black plague" of the fourteenth century – made famous by Giovanni Boccaccio – up to the three years of the COVID-19, and includes a careful and updated scientific analysis of diseases, their spread and the treatments that medicine has managed to develop, making available to society the scientific skills and the results of the most advanced research that the University of Turin can boast in reference to a wide range of knowledge and disciplines.
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