The Black Plague

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the city, the Plague took the lives of men, women, children and animals. During the year of the lord 1348 there was a very great pestilence in the city and district of Florence (Streissguth 69). The plague had reached Florence and began its destruction of the city. When the Plague took to the houses no one remained. And it was not just men and women died, but even sentient animals died (Streissguth 70). The Plague was such a fury and so tempestuous that in houses in which it took holds of the previously healthy servants who took care of the ill died of the same illness (Streissguth 70). Servants were exposed to the plague and caught the illness and eventually died. Florence was surrounded by death, sorrow and panic as the plague progressed.
Florence's society continued to suffer from the Plague causing families to split and people fleeing to safety. Frightened people abandoned their houses and move on to a new town. Those in town fled to villages. Physicians could not be ...

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