I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), by Alessandro Manzoni

<p>Food profiteering was as active in plague-stricken Milan 300 years ago as in modern times. Shops were stormed for food. Read how the Council strove heroically to fix fair rates. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>Sale of corn and flour regulated in Milan, Nov. 15, 1629.</p>