Episode 457: The Black Death Part II - Passport to Hell
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The Effects of Measures on the Spread of the Pest
While places like Venice lost 60% of its population Pistagia only lost a third. No Italian city saw more horrors from the black death than Florence. By the time the plague reached Florence they'd already survived an epidemic of another kind in 1340 probably measles or smallpox. The city's chief of police and his son were publicly executed and dismembered.
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