Cover illustration: Šibenik hospital, 17th c., Dalmatia (in: Zadar State Archive, fond 57 (Generalno providurstvo Dalmacije u Zadru, 1806–1809 vol. 47, titul V, Javno dobrotvorstvo 1809). By kind permission of The State Archives in Zadar.
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