Il Tribunale del Real Patrimonio del Regno di Sicilia e la gestione di emergenze sanitarie nella seconda metà del XVII secolo

In the Regno di Sicilia, since 1575, the Senato of Palermo was a formal holder of important health skills for the whole island which, however, could have exercised only when in the event of a serious emergency the Tribunale del Real Patrimonio which exercised them ordinarily delegated them to him. This paper analyzes some situations of epidemic alarm in the second half of the seventeenth century in which the Senato is not allowed to exercise any power in health matters, as if these prerogatives were merely symbolic of his prestige.