What is Naples Plague?
[[File:Micco_Spadaro_-_Largo_Mercatello_durante_la_peste_a_Napoli_(1656).jpg|thumb|200x200px|The painting of the Naples Plague in 1656–58.]] The '''Naples Plague''' is a [[Plague (disease)|plague]] epidemic that occurred in [[Italy]] from 1656 to 1658, which caused a devastating blow to the population of [[Naples]].<ref name=Emerging>{{Cite journal|last1=Scasciamacchia|first1=Silvia|last2=Serrecchia|first2=Luigina|last3=Giangrossi|first3=Luigi|last4=Garofolo|first4=Giuliano|last5=Balestrucci|first5=Antonio|last6=Sammartino|first6=Gilberto|last7=Fasanella|first7=Antonio|title=Plague Epidemic in the Kingdom of Naples, 1656–1658|url=https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/1/11-0597_article|journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases|language=en-us|volume=18|issue=1|pages=186–188|doi=10.3201/eid1801.110597|pmc=3310102|pmid=22260781|year=2012|access-date=2021-04-24|archive-date=2021-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325215742/https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/1/11-0597_article|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=carta>{{Cite web|title=The Plague of 1656|url=https://www.ilcartastorie.it/en/la-peste-del-1656/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=il Cartastorie|language=en-US}}</ref> The epidemic mainly affects the central and southern regions of Italy. Some researchers estimate that 1.25 million people died from the plague in the [[Kingdom of Naples]] in Italy, which is one of the deadliest epidemics in history.<ref name=Emerging/><ref name=paint>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-17|title=Plague visionaries: how Rembrandt, Titian and Caravaggio tackled pestilence|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/17/plague-visionaries-how-rembrandt-titian-and-caravaggio-tackled-pestilence|access-date=2021-01-13|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Alfani>{{Cite journal|last=Alfani|first=Guido|date=2013-06-19|title=Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis|url=https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article/17/4/408/499216|journal=European Review of Economic History|volume=1