Day 4

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In Day 4, a total of 8 epidemic events are known so far.

Locations and Spreading

	Date	Summary		Source	Translation	T

1332, June 4

Heavy thunderstorm causes lightning damage in Parma; citizens are hit; fields and vineyards also devastated

Die 4 giugno giobia circa vespero, arduo tempo, venti grandi e contrarij con troni e lampegij, piogia e tempesta insieme in Parma, e la saetta celeste percosi ne la tore comune dove già ancora percosi, e dirupe una parte ex merlis dicte turis et in volta fenestre, et funem seu catenellam eneam, que erat ad tintinella, usque ad fenestras domus potestatis; et plures homines qui erant in platea ivi justa portam domus potestatis ceciderunt in terram tacti timore sagitte, et quasi mortui fuerunt portati ad domos suas, et steterunt ita exteriti tota ipse die; et tempestas valde grande damnum fecit in civitate et circa forte per unum miliarium in blavas et vineas.

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1348, March 4 VN: 90 %

A mortality, the Black Death breaks out in Arles and all over the world. 90 percent of the people die.

E en l'an mil CCCXLVIII, la primieyra semmana de carema (4 March), comenset a Bezes la gran mortalitat, et comenset costa le porge d'en Sicart Taborieg, mercadier, costa en P. Perus, qu'es de peyra al cap de la carieyra franceza, et moriron totz los senhors cossols, els clavaris, els escudiers, et apres tanta de gent, que de mil non y remanian cent.

In the year 1348, the first week of Lent (March 4), the great mortality began in Bezes, and the death of Sicart Taborieg, merchant, cost P. Perus, who is from Peyra in head of the French career, all the noble men, the claviers, the squires died, you learned so many people, that out of a thousand there were not a hundred left. (Translation: Thomas Wozniak)

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1405, August 4

Letter from Coluccio Salutati to Domenico Bandini in Arezzo, mentioning a fever illness there and the death of one of his children through illness

Sunt omnia, quanvis levia, vir insignis, frater optime et amice karissime, temporibus istis suspecta, ut quanvis febris quartane typus parum habeat cum pestilenti febre commertium, metuendum sit tamen, ne sub illius egritudinis commotione pestifera lues (p. 406) oprebat. [...] Ego vero valeo; valent et miei, preter Andream, qui, sicut Deo placuit, Petrum comitatus est. Sit nomen Domini benedictum. Philippus hodie nona die graviter egrotavit cum sigillis et signis; convalescit tamen et, licet febris adsit et ulcus suspectum ingravescat (p. 407), liberationem speramus. Vale et in morte Andree, precor, non commovearis, sed mecum teneas et secum et nobiscum Deum egisse non solum sicut oportet, sed misericorditer atque bene.

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