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THE BLACK DEATH IN ITALY

By HistoryWise1
  • Jun 12, 1320

    Central Asia - Black Death Emerges

    Black Death plague enters Gobi Desert.
  • Period: Jun 12, 1320 to Jun 12, 1374

    Black Death Timeline in Italy

  • Jun 12, 1346

    Black Sea

    Black Death reaches coast of the Black Sea
  • Jun 12, 1347

    Black Death Reaches Constantinople

  • Jun 12, 1347

    Fall- Alexandria, Egypt struck by Black Death

  • Oct 1, 1347

    October, 1347 – Black Death arrived in Sicily.

    October, 1347 – Black Death arrived in Sicily.
    • Source: Michael of Piazza – 12 Genoese galleys brought infection to port of Messina. (from Crimea?) pneumonic “sickness clinging to their very bones”
    • BD enters the city of Messina. Citizens turn on the sailors and drove them from port. Fled to southern Sicily carrying the plague.
    • BD scatters around Mediterranean.
    • First victims reach Catania. After accepting refugees in hospitals, impose strict controls over immigration. Plague victims who died were buried in “pits outside the walls”.
  • Oct 12, 1347

    Black Death Reaches Europe

    First time Black Death reaches the port of Messina
  • Nov 1, 1347

    Fall/Winter

    Fall/Winter
    • Florence, Italy struck by Black Death; nearly sixty thousand die in a few months.
  • Dec 1, 1347

    Southern Italy

    Southern Italy
    • All southern Italy overcome by Black death.
  • Jan 1, 1348

    Black Death Erupts Throughout Italy

    Black Death Erupts Throughout Italy
    • BD arrives simultaneously in Sicily, Genoa and Venice.
    • BD arrives in Pisa a few weeks later – it is the main point of entry to Central and Northern Italy.
    • BD moved rapidly inland to Rome and Tuscany.
    • BD enters Florence – source: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio “almost all…died, and in most cases without any fever or other attendant malady…”p.46 Ziegler
    • Florentines self-quarantine themselves, shun the sick and either immerse in Epicurean delights or abstain from luxury of every kind
  • Feb 12, 1348

    Black Death reaches Avignon killing nearly half the population

  • Mar 12, 1348

    Mortality in Perugia, Naples and Venice

    Mortality in Perugia, Naples and Venice
    • Plague reaches Orvieto by means of an Ambassador who arrived from Perugia towards end of April, 1348. Plague reached its peak in July. Septicaemic form caused people to die within 24 hours. 500 victims died a day. Final mortality was 90% of the population. Dr. Carpentier puts mortality rate at about 50%.
    • Naples 63,000 died in two months. In most Italian cities the mortality rate was 60%.
    • Venice – 600 Venetians a day died.
  • Mar 20, 1348

    Burial Places and Quarantines

    Burial Places and Quarantines
    • The Doge, Andrea Dondolo and the Great Council appoint 3 noblemen to discuss measures of checking the spread of the plague. Designated remote burial places at S Erasmo, S Marco Boccacalme on special barges where dead would be buried 5 feet underground.
    • A quarantine station was set up at the Nazarethum where voyagers from the Orient were isolated for 40 days.
    • In Milan, victims of plague were walled up inside their homes left to perish dead or alive.
  • Apr 12, 1348

    Inland cities in Italy struck by Black Death

  • Apr 12, 1348

    Black Death Strikes Cairo, Egypt

    • Two hundred thousand die by Fall; 60,000 die in Tunis, Africa.
  • May 1, 1348

    Orvieto

    Orvieto
    • Orvieto – government acted with apathy to BD.
    • Orvieto official records made no mention of plague, no processions – height of BD
  • May 2, 1348

    Pistoia - Regulations

    Pistoia - Regulations
    • Black Death arrives in Pistoia and Siena Italy.
    • Council of Pistoia enacted nine pages of regulations to guard the town against infection. No imports were allowed, bans on travel was relaxed on May 23. Government acted responsibly with preventative measures.
  • Jun 1, 1348

    Siena - Death and Flight

    Siena - Death and Flight
    • Siena – source: Agnolo di Tura states 50,000 died, many fled leaving only ten thousand inhabitants. It loses 30-50% of the population. Cathedral was left unfinished. Wool industry closed down and import of oil suspended. June 2, all civil courts were recessed by the City Council until 3 months later.
  • Jun 12, 1348

    Flagellante

    Flagellant movement appears in Hungary
  • Oct 1, 1348

    Deaths in Florence

    Deaths in Florence
    • By October 96,000 died in Florence according to Marchione di Copo Stefani, who wrote his Florentine Chronicle in the late 1370s.
  • Nov 1, 1348

    Epidemic spread

    Epidemic spread
    • Black Death runs its course throughout Italy.
  • Jun 1, 1374

    Siena 1374

    Siena 1374
    • Another way of the plague goes through Siena. St. Catherine works as a nurse and as a grave digger burying the dead.