Donna Leon Interview

Quinton Hates Baths

Poveglia Island is one of the darkest places on earth. When the Black Plague spread through Venice, people who showed symptoms, and even those who were only suspected of being sick, were forced onto boats and taken to Poveglia. Once you were dropped there, you were completely cut off from the world. People who were sent there knew that they would never return. Many were abandoned, starving, terrified, and left to die alone. As death spread across the island, huge pits were dug to deal with the b