title: [Historical and literary notes and attitude to sudden death. Chronology as a problem of definition].
abstract: After describing the phenomenon of sudden death both from a historical and literary viewpoint, the paper tackles the problem of its definition which is not yet univocal in the present literature, and identifies it mainly in its chronology.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Clinica Medica, Università degli Studi di Ferrara.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Soimero
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Tasini
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Spadari
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Annotazioni storico-letterarie e atteggiamenti verso la morte improvvisa. La cronologia come problema di definizione.