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Throughout the year, until autumn 1629 the general political situation

did not undergo major changes. After the tumult of S. Martin seemed plenty back in Milan. But it was a matter of days: the calm of the bread came with a higher price in relation to the scarcity of grain. The small amount of flour that had to be administered by providing for equitable distribution was wasted and the State was unable to import enough grain from abroad. It was believed that with the hanging of four men believed responsible for the riot find the things. Instead things got worse, but there was no uproar, the people almost instinctively felt the impossibility of radical improvements and changes. Hunger sluggish even the most generous. The famine feared during the autumn and winter showed up with his face devastating. Everywhere shops shut, streets a course of relentless misery, more and more beggars, enhanced by the many unemployed, more and more people who, dressed in rags, emaciated, gaunt, sometimes unable to stand on his feet, begging. Even people who had been well and had enjoyed a comfortable now seemed crushed by hunger. The most painful was provided by the country people that hunger had driven home now squatting at street corners or in long processions farmers felt it impossible for the city to provide for them. More and more became the dead. Few aid by the most attentive and generous souls. Heroic action of the cardinal who instructs young and active priests to assist the most affected. But it's always patches. It took the action of the State, however, was completely absent or inadequate. Against the opinion of the Court of Health from storage in small spaces who feared an outbreak of 'epidemic, it was decided to open the Lazzaretto. The people there was a minimum of food assistance: we were taken to force even those who opposed the admission. But death by contagion assumed considerable proportions: hence the decision to postpone the hungry outside. At last the spring came and began to find something.
But another tough blow and fell on the population. Because the Spaniards could not be right for the Gonzaga of Mantua, the Empire of Germany to Spain, sent an expeditionary force of mercenaries fierce, even crossing the territories of friends and allies with the same destructive effect of locusts. The people of the arrival of mercenaries from the strip of land invested their passage ran away from home looking for shelter to the mountains. And the sufferings were not over.