![]() Il Rossi continues in his History of the City of San Remo: « To the plague, since evils should never be unsettled, another no less terrible calamity, the piracy of the Mohammedans. In 1581 the serious danger seemed to have been averted. Throughout the century, however, the scourge continued to strike so much that in 1576- 1579, during the most acute phase of the so-called plague of San Carlo Borromeo that invaded Italy, Manzoniana memoria was also hunted in San Remo. The little square itself took the same name. Despite all the remedies, the disease did not diminish and, since the earthly care was not enough, the city authorities decided to turn to the Eternal Father and in 1508 they erected a chapel in the small square of the Pigna now called Dei Dolori, dedicated to Saint Sebastian, considered protector against the plague. Armed guards were on the doors to check who entered and who left, that they were not infected. The Town Council sent a doctor from Genoa at its own expense. The hospital, where no one wanted to rush, became the refuge of the plague victims, but for the large number of people who came, and the very few who waited to be treated, it was rare that those who entered, did not come out but to be taken to the tomb and not only the hospitalized did not heal, but the healthy fell ill, and all lost their lives. ![]() The shortage of food, the lack of hygienic measures and the flight of the wealthy contributed to increase the death. In 1502 the plague broke out there, and in a few days every place was filled with the sick and the dead. The sixteenth century was marked by a series of consecutive catastrophic events and in the words of Girolamo Rossi: « The prosperous progress of the town of San Remo came at the beginning of the sixteenth century interrupted by great calamities.
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