What is Italian Plague of 1629-1631?
The '''Italian Plague of 1629-1631''' was a group times when many people in northern [[Italy]] caught [[bubonic plague]] from 1629 to 1631. This [[epidemic]], often called the '''Great Plague of Milan''', killed about 280,000 people. Very many people died in the cities in [[Lombardy]]. This was one of the last outbreaks of the [[pandemic]] of bubonic plague that began with the [[Black Death]]. [[Germany|German]] and [[France|French]] soldiers carried the plague to the city of [[Mantua]] in 1629 because of the [[Thirty Years' War]] (1618-1648). [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] troops, infected with the disease, retreated into northern and central Italy, spreading the disease to more people. In October 1629, the plague reached [[Milan]], Lombardy's commercial center. In the city [[Milan]], it killed about 64,000 people, which was 25% of Milan's people. It killed between 12% and 60% of all the people in Italy.<ref name=Italics>{{cite magazine|title=The Plague of 1630: Milan's Deadliest Hour|work=Italics Magazine|accessdate=April 27, 2021|author=Zachary Vogt|date=March 11, 2020|url=https://italicsmag.com/2020/03/11/the-plague-of-1630-milans-deadliest-hour/}}</ref> The papal city of [[Bologna]] lost an estimated 15,000 citizens to the plague, with neighboring smaller cities of [[Modena]] and [[Parma]] also being heavily affected. This outbreak of plague also spread north into [[Tyrol (region)|Tyrol]], an alpine region of western [[Austria]] and northern Italy. Later outbreaks of bubonic plague in Italy include the city of [[Florence]] in 1630-1633 and the areas surrounding [[Naples]], [[Rome]] and [[Genoa]] in 1656-1657. ==References== * Cipolla, Carlo M. ''Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth Century Italy''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. * Prinzing, Freidrich. ''Epidemics Resulting from Wars''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. {{reflist}} [[Category:1620s in Europe]] [[Category:17th century in Italy]] [[Category:Plague pandemics]] [[Category:1630s in Europe]] [[Category:1629]] [[Category:1