Q. How many people died?I have not been able to ascertain a figure for the total mortality, as the Death did not strike equally everywhere. Reports from the time lead me to conclude that Paris lost half its citizens; Venice, two-thirds. Of England, the monk Thomas of Walsingham wrote, I was particularly moved by the words of the poet Petrarch:
Yet I myself know of towns in which only a scant few succumbed. And travelers have told me of a few regions that remained completely untouched, for reasons known only to God.
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