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{{Disease
|Date start=1355-08
|Date end=
|Place=Tunis
|Country=Cyprus
|Disease=Plague
|Keyword=Crops; Epidemics; Famine; Fruit; Harvest; Mortality
|Reference=Matteo Villani 1995, Vol. 1, p. 703.
|Reference translation=Translation by ChatGPT-3.5; Translation by DeepL; 
|Summary=In [[Cyprus]] and [[Tunis]] and surroundings were great abundance of [[locust]]s, which destroyed the [[harvest]] and the fields. It followed a [[famine]] and a [[mortality]] among the people.
|Text=Come abondarono grilli in Cipri e 'n Barberia <br />In questo tempo abbondarono nell'isola di Cipri tanti grilli, che rimpierono tutti i campi alti da terra un quarto di braccio, e consumarono ciò che verde trovarono sopra la terra, e guastarono i lavori per modo che frutto no se ne poté avere in quest'anno. E 'l simigliante avenne questo medesimo anno MCCCLV i molte parti della Barberia, e massimamente nel reame di Tunisi; ed essendo mancato il pane al minuto popolo di Barberia, metteno i grilli ne'forni, e cotti alquanto incrosticati li mangiavano i Saracini, e con questa brutta vivanda mantenieno la misera vita, ma grande mortalità seguitò di quello popolo.
|Language=Italian
|Translation=How crickets were abundant in Cyprus and in Barbaria<br />At that time there were so many crickets on the island of Cyprus that they covered all the fields up to the height of a quarter of an arm and consumed all the greenery they found on the ground. They destroyed the crops to such an extent that no fruit could be harvested that year. Something similar happened in the same year, [[1355]], in many parts of Barbaria, especially in the kingdom of Tunis. As bread became scarce for the common people of Barbarie, they put the crickets in ovens, and after they were baked and crusted, the Saracens ate them. With this unappetising food they maintained their miserable lives, but great mortality followed among this people.
|Animal=Locust
|Group=Saracens
}}