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"In the year of our Lord 1345, the pestilence of the groin, beginning among the Tartars, and, demanding through sins upon the whole world, spreading contagiously, was so terribly widespread that it spared no one in any place; yet if it seemed to disappear elsewhere, after two or three years it would return to the same place." — Rafaino de’ Caresini, Grand Chancellor, Republic of Venice, writing between 1383 and 1386.