PARISH PLAGUE REGISTER
Siena, Duomo Quarter
May, Anno Domini 1348
NAMES OF THE DECEASED
  • Agnolo di Tura, chronicler's family — wife and five children
CAUSE OF DEATH
Pestilence
BURIALS RECORDED
5
CLERK'S NOTES
Di Tura wrote: 'I buried my five children with my own hands. So many died that all believed it was the end of the world.'
❦ Recorded in the Bills of Mortality ❦