Black Plague

While the queen was pleading her cause at the court of Clement VI, a dreadful epidemic, called the Black Plague -- the same that Boccaccio has described so wonderfully -- was ravaging the kingdom of Naples, and indeed the whole of Italy.

Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Author Ross takes Brunelleschi's enormous challenges and sets them against a background of bitter rivalry, political intrigue, Black Plague, imprisonment and war, weaving a fascinating tale of against-all-odds achievement.

Jane Chafin: Brunelleschi's Dome Jane Chafin 2011

Author Ross takes Brunelleschi's enormous challenges and sets them against a background of bitter rivalry, political intrigue, Black Plague, imprisonment and war, weaving a fascinating tale of against-all-odds achievement.

Jane Chafin: Brunelleschi's Dome Jane Chafin 2011

Author Ross takes Brunelleschi's enormous challenges and sets them against a background of bitter rivalry, political intrigue, Black Plague, imprisonment and war, weaving a fascinating tale of against-all-odds achievement.

Jane Chafin: Brunelleschi's Dome Jane Chafin 2011

Some of what they did there survived, for instance the Black Plague.

Men Behind the Sun (1988) 2010

I have many, many students in my classes who, after reading enough books, and listening to enough people talk about pottery that is ten thousand years old and how the Spanish Inquisition did this and the Black Plague did that eventually throw their hands up and say, okay, I'll stop denying and start thinking.

Archive 2009-09-01 delagar 2009

I have many, many students in my classes who, after reading enough books, and listening to enough people talk about pottery that is ten thousand years old and how the Spanish Inquisition did this and the Black Plague did that eventually throw their hands up and say, okay, I'll stop denying and start thinking.

Just a Theory delagar 2009

Someone told me once that the nursery rhyme was about the Black Plague.

Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

The tragicomic point is that these same brigades — perhaps “black holes” that engulf everything, perhaps newly awakened spores of the Black Plague — were actually intended to protect Israel in time of need.

Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. 2009

"Ring Around the Rosie" is a children's nursery rhyme about the Black Plague.

Leighann Lord: Trust Fund Baby, Future Maybe 2009