... 90). The first outbreak of the plague in Western Europe was in October of 1347, at the Sicilian port of Messina in Italy (Jordan 90). The plague broke out when a fleet of twelve Genoese merchant ships sailed into the harbor of Messina, a town on the island of Sicily. In Messina, hundreds of people were said to be dying each day. In September 1346, the plague broke out at the edge of the Black Sea ... ships. It took only six months before the plague had completely devoured most of Italy. More than half of the population died in Venice (Jordan 90). Florence was one of Italy's most prospero...

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... rates escalated close to 500-600 deaths a day, 60% of Venice's population was gone. As with medical professions the clergy suffered great losses as well. Theirs was an occupational hazard; entering the home of the sick, doctors were at greater risk of catching the illness themselves. The clergy had to give the dieing their last rights and preside over the burials, this made for their demise. As indicated by Knox (page12 ... Central Asia in 1339. Plague reached Sarai, the Volga River, and the Crimea in 1345. From there it spread rapidly. By the next year, 1346, plague epidemics broke out...

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... reasonably well. However, those engaged in non-luxury crafts in cities involved in long-distance trade might fall foul of merchant-entrepreneurs. For example, Frankfurt's lacemakers worked on this putting-out basis for a few rich silk merchants by 1587; the same thing happened in Antwerp's silk and construction industries, Lyons's silk industry, Nuremberg's weapons and metalworking industry ... Cameron56). Cities grew in stature in terms of the architectural layout of an urban area and by the sixteenth century these markets had became the focal points of local, regional, or long-distance ...

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... culture can be shown in several of William Shakespeare's plays set in Renaissance Italy, such as, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo & Juliet. Finally, Renaissance humanists had reached the goals that they had established when Petrarch and Boccaccio first started getting noticed. They were to establish a literary scholarship as a form of studies, to train individuals apart from the religious aspect of studies, the stress of classical studies, and to give ... a sense of identity to their own culture. Humanism spread ... ...

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