An interpretation of an event described in Giovanni Boccaccio, 'Il Decameron'. La peste di Firenze dal Boccaccio descritta. A.S.E. il Sigr. Marchese Pier Roberto Capponi. Luigi Sabatelli DDD. Luigi ...

The plague that killed a quarter of the people of Europe in the years 1348–1350 is still studied to shed light on human behavior under conditions of universal catastrophe ...

The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case of the Black Death in England was in June 1348. Bubonic plague was spread by rats, which were commonly found in homes ...

believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes that it was ’the ...

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The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population. According to genome analysis comparing the ancient sample and a recent outbreak in ...

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The plague first hit British shores in 1348 after being spread to Europe by fleas on rats aboard ships from Asia. Scientists estimate that between a third and a half of Britain’s population were ...