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Petrarch 1304-74. The encyclopedia does not mention his writing about the plague, but the Laura he immortalized, died in the plague year 1348. Sounds as though there might be a story there.
Here is a URL about the many other times plague epidemics hit Europe:
http://www.beyond.fr/history/plague.html In one of the worst, cause was greedy merchants who wanted silk cargo on ship with known cases of plague inducing authorities to lift the quarantine.
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