Note 160 — Chapter VII · THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Giov. Villani, xi. 92, 93. In Macchiavelli, Stor. Fiorent. lib. ii. cap. 42, we read that 96,000 persons died of the plague in 1348.