CONTENTS.

• To The Reader xi
• Introduction xiii
• CHAPTER I.The Commencement ofthe Epidemic.First reports as to the sickness — Generalaccount of the epidemic in eastern countries — The great trade routesbetween Asia and Europe — The plague in the Crimea — Tartar siege ofCaffa — Origin of the name "Black Death" — Symptoms of the disease —Constantinople is attacked; account of the epidemic by the EmperorCantacuzene — Genoese traders carry the infection to Sicily — Effectin Messina and Catania 1–15
• CHAPTER II.The Epidemic in Italy.Date of the arrival of the infected ships at Genoa — Striking samenessin all accounts — De Mussi's account of the beginning of theplague in Italy, specially in Genoa and Piacenza — Boccaccio'sdescription of it in Florence — This confirmed by the historianVillani — Progress of the disease in Italy — Pisa — Padua, Siena,etc. — Petrarch's letter on the epidemic at Parma — Venice andits doctors — Description of the desolation by Bohemianstudents16–33
• CHAPTER III.Progress of the Plague in France.Its arrival at Marseilles — A Parisian doctor's account of theepidemic at Montpellier — Avignon is attacked and suffersterribly — Contemporary account of its ravages by a Canon ofthe Low Countries — Gui de Chauliac, the Pope's physician — Spreadof the infection in every direction — William of Nargis'description of the mortality in Paris — Philip VI. consults themedical faculty — Normandy — Amiens — Account of Gilles LeMuisis, Abbot of Tournay — M. Siméon Luce on the conditionsof popular life in France in the Fourteenth century — Agrariantroubles follow the epidemic34–57
• CHAPTER IV.The Plague in Other European Countries.From
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