quinzato

Updated: May 4, 2025

Baptist Quinzato, Bishop of Foligno, having allowed himself, by way of a joke, to be bitten by a tarantula, could obtain a cure in no other way than by being, through the influence of the tarantella, compelled to dance.

J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker - The Black Death : The Dancing Mania