Florence During the Renaissance 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 ...

The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization "The Black Death" known as the Bubonic Plague was one of the world's worst natural disasters in history and as a fatal epidemic disease it radically altered all...

Since the reign of Emperor Justinian in 542 A.D., man has one unwelcome organism along for the ride, Yersinia pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly know as the Black Death, the plague. Plague is divided into three biotypes, each associated with one of three major pandemics occurring in history...