![]() In 1348 CE, it struck Florence, Italy, Boccaccio's native city, killing his stepmother (his mother had died earlier, possibly of plague). Merchant ships fleeing the city went first to Sicily, then Marseilles and Valencia, infecting them, and the plague then spread across Europe. When soldiers died, Djanibek ordered their corpses catapulted over the walls of Caffa, and this is thought to have infected the city's population. 1342-1357 CE) whose troops were infected by the Plague of the Near East. ![]() The city had been under siege by the Mongol Golden Horde under the command of Khan Djanibek (r. The point-of-origin most scholars agree on are the Genoese ships from the port city of Caffa (also given as Kaffa) on the Black Sea (modern-day Feodosia in Crimea). ![]()
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