Florence During the RenaissanceThe Plague in Italy (Florence) 1348In 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 ...

In 1348, in the major Trade City of Florence, a ship from China docked on the port carrying the rat that would lead Europe through one of the greatest epidemics ever known to man, the Black Death. The virulent plague quickly claimed the lives of a third of the population. There was no escape, as ...

Bubonic Plague" I buried with my own hands five of my children in a single grave. No bells. No tears. This is the end of the world." (Deaux, 1969) These are the words of Italian author Agniol diTura, but they reflect the emotions of an entire nation in the 1300's. It was at that time thatEurope ...