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 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 …showed first 75 words of 5139 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5139 total…children? (Biel p.137-141) In a final note, some of the death toll numbers go as stated: While the plague raged, Pisa and Vienna lost 500 people a day. Florence, Venice, Hamburg and Bremen lost a minimum of 60% of their populations. At the peak of the epidemic, Paris lost 800 people a day, and by the end of its long run with the disease (which lasted there until 1349), half its population of 100,000 people had died (Deaux p.85)