1348-00-00-Apulia
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| Date startStart date of the disease. | 1348 | + |
| Date endEnd date of the disease. | + | |
| SeasonSeason (spring, summer, fall or winter) | ||
| Date otherOther mentioned dates. | ||
| PlacePlace(s), city or location of the disease. | Calabria, Southern Italy | |
| RegionHistorical region(s) | Apulia, Calabria | |
| CountryCurrent country | Italy | |
| RiverMentioned river(s) | ||
| Natural eventMentioned natural event(s) | ||
| PersonMentioned persons(s) | King Louis the Great of Hungary | |
| GroupGroup(s) of people mentioned | ||
| VictimIndication of victims | + | |
| AnimalMentioned animal(s) | ||
| DiseaseMentioned disease(s) | ||
| Epidemic waveAssociated epidemic wave | Black Death | |
| Social responseSocial response that happened in reaction to the disease | ||
| LanguageLanguage of the original text | Latin | |
| KeywordFurther keyword(s) | Epidemics | |
| FactGridIDIdentifier of an item in FactGrid database | Q1871679 | |
| last edited | 20. 02. 2026 by Martin Bauch. |
The Black Death hits Apulia and other parts of Southern Italy like Calabria. King Louis the Great of Hungary flees back home from the epidemic outbreak
Text originalOriginal text
sequitur annus qui nostre salutis MCCCXLVIII numeratur, in quo pestis iam pridem cepta insigni strage per universam pene Italiam desevire cepit. Que, cum iam Brutios et Calabros ac universum Apulie Regnum inficere cepisset, et in dies magis obrepert, tantaque augmenteratur sevitia, ut solo contactu passim vulgaret morbos, et tabe ac pestifero odore inficeret validos, et egros biduo aut minori temporis spatio (p. 12) conficeret, ingens mortis formido Ludovicum, Ungarie regem, invasit, qua deterritus in Pannoniam aufugere quam celerrime constituit.
Text translationEnglish translation of the text
There follows the year which is numbered 1348 of our salvation, in which the plague, already begun some time before, began to rage with remarkable slaughter throughout almost the whole of Italy. And when it had already begun to infect the Calabrians and the entire Kingdom of Apulia, and was spreading more and more each day, and was increasing with such savagery that by mere contact it widely transmitted diseases, and by corruption and pestilential stench infected even the healthy, and carried off the sick within two days or a shorter space of time, a great fear of death seized Louis, king of Hungary; terrified by this, he resolved to flee as quickly as possible into Pannonia.
