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The [[army]] of the Duke of Anjous was defeated near to [[Naples]]. There and in many other places, like [[Ferrara]], [[Bologna]] and [[Pisa]] was a high [[mortality]].  +
Duke Semovitus of Cieszyn (Teschen), prior of the knights of St John in [[Bohemia]] states in a charter of April 20th 1382 that recently a plague wave has more or less depopulated the town of [[Manětín]] (western Bohemia) and grants certain tax and inheritance advantages to the survivors.  +
A [[mortality]] breaks out in the end of June in the city of [[Bilzen]] (?), killing half of the population. In [[August]] and [[September]], the disease spreads across the country and affects the regions of [[Namur]], [[Dinant]], [[Huy]], [[Tongeren]], [[Liège]], [[Maastricht]], [[Aachen]] and [[Trier]]. It kills 3,000 people in [[Namur]].  +
[[Plague]] hits [[Florence]].  +
The [[plague]] raged again in [[Florence]] and many people fled. To stop the exodus, a law was passed forbidding the Florentines to leave their homes. However, the fear of death was so great that the law had no effect.  +
The [[plague]] raged in [[Florence]]. It began slightly in [[1382]], was then almost imperceptible, raged violently from [[March]] [[1383]] to [[September]] and was weak again until March [[1384]]. During the worst months, many people fled the city.  +
During the [[plague]], many people fled the city of [[Florence]]. To prevent this, the rulers tried in vain to force people to stay and even a tax did not help, as some paid and others did not.  +
A more modest [[plague]] strikes [[Limburg]].  +
A [[plague]] strikes [[Limburg]].  +
[[Plague]] affects [[Lucca]] for two years  +
[[Plague]] in [[Rome]] which led among other things to the flight of the [[pope]] Urban to the city [[Tivoli]].  +
In [[Florence]], a large [[procession]] was organized on 24 and 25 [[January]] to ask [[God]]'s mercy for the [[plague]] and [[mortality]]. In [[May]] a [[plague]] began with 40 or more deaths per day.  +
[[Plague]] strikes [[Magdeburg]] in summer, a great mortality arises.  +
A [[mortality]] breaks out in [[Montpellier]] from [[June]] 1383 to [[August]] 1384. The members of the town council order the manufacturing of a gigantic candle, to burn day and night at the church of Notre-Dame-des-Tables. During the [[plague]], the university has been lockdown from the 10th of May to the 8th of September 1384.  +
Great [[mortality]] in [[Florence]]. In the beginning more than 400 persons per day died, later 8,9,12 per day. Many people flee to [[Bologna]] and the [[Romagna]]. On 22. July great riot, caused by the [[Ciompi]] and on 7th October an [[earthquake]]  +
This passage is about a [[conspiracy]] in [[Florence]]. The conspirators, who were made up of common people, tried to take advantage of the fact that many citizens had left the city due to the raging [[plague]]. However, the conspiracy failed.  +
Severe [[plague]] and high [[mortality]] in [[Pisa]] and as a consequence [[procession]]s, description of the [[symptoms]].  +
Outbreak of [[plague]] in [[Swabia]], [[Westphalia]], [[Saxony]], [[Hesse]], [[Thuringia]] and [[Limburg]].  +
Letter of [[Coluccio Salutati]] criticising the panic over the [[plague]] in [[Florence]]  +
Letter from [[Coluccio Salutati]] to Antonio di Ser Chello, in which he criticises the medical theories of the [[plague]], such as that the [[air]] is the cause of the plague. He cites examples from [[Pisa]] and [[Viterbo]]. He also gives data on [[mortality]].  +
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