Giovanni de Ventura (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Giovanni de Ventura was a municipal plague doctor for the town of Pavia. He was a certified physician from a University and had a degree. When Ventura negotiated a "spectacular" plague doctor contract in 1479 with the town of Pavia to treat plague patients he was fresh out of school and desired to start a medical career. He became a plague doctor for the city of Pavia, which involved a sixteen clause contract with the city. The salary he received was 30 florins per month (plus full citizenship and a free house), which was five to six times the salary of a skilled person of the time. The average skilled person earned about 60 florins per year, where Ventura received 360 florins per year. As a professional doctor of that time Ventura was to uphold certain standards. These included ethical codes and professional dress.