The Plague in Florence , Italy
The Plague in Italy (Florence) 1348 In the year 1348 AD, an enemy quite unexpected and very uncontrollable came to the shores of Italy. It struck viscously and quickly, by the time this enemy had left more than half of the population of Italy was dead. This is enemy as we now know was The Plague. Although many are of unsure of the exact time that the plague arrived in Italy, the rough estimate is late in 1348. The plague started in 1334, in Asia and killed about 90% of the population in Hopei, a province of China. It was carried along trade routes and began to work its was West, striking India, Syria and Mesopotamia (Gottfried p.1-3). In 1346, the plague came to Kaffa, a Genoese cathedral city and a port central to the successful Genoese trade industry located on the Crimean Peninsula of the Black Sea. The Tartar forces of Kipchak Khan Janibeg, backed by the Venetian forces, competitors of the Genoese, had laid siege to Kaffa in hopes of removing the Genoese from one of the cornerstones of Europe's defense against Eastern attack and Genoa's dominance of East-West trade. Kaffa was helpless, barely able to sustain even the crudest living conditions. Finding its chief means of supply cut o
Every individual was touched by it in some frightful manner: those who did not suffer from the disease themselves fled from it in terror as their loved ones died. Florence, Venice, Hamburg and Bremen lost a minimum of 60% of their populations. Generally, many people behaved more recklessly than ever before in an obvious reaction to recent horror -- for why treat others with respect and have a care for one's own soul when, without any clear reason, God had inflicted such enormous horror on His children? (Biel p. Jupiter, the sanguine planet, was hot and wet, the two qualities that led to rotting and purification, which in turn led to plague. Plague victims could not get magistrates or notaries to witness their wills. The bubonic variant (the most common) derives from the swellings or buboes that appeared on a victim's neck, armpit or groin. Adding to the misery was an unsettling mystery: the people of the Middle Ages had no way of knowing what caused the disease. The pace and severity of the beatings increased with time. But more than likely, death would come quickly. The birth rate rose, as well, yet the overall population did not increase. Women and men began to dress ostentatiously.
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