Hitsotria De Morbo, By Gabriele De Mussis

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Gabriele de’ Mussis, a lawyer from Piacenza, the author of Hitsotria de Morbo, which covers how the plague had spread across continental Europe. First the source is written as if de’ Mussis is having a conversation from god and trying to find a reason for why God is punishing everyone of Europe why he is “shooting Poisoned arrows” at the innocent, sinners, men, women, and children, asking where God’s Mercy has gone. No one will be given rest, poisoned arrows will strike everyone” (Horrox, de’ Mussis pg. 16). In his “conversations” with God he writes as if he is God and he respond with that how humanity has failed, the people did not follow his rules, the priests failed their jobs. God says that the time for Mercy has left and that vengeance is …show more content…

18). The source then goes into detail of the events of the besiege of Caffa. Relations between Italian Merchants and Moghuls became uneasy leading to the siege. De Mussis writes how the Christians in the city were trapped for 3 years. During this time the Tartars (the besiegers) started to become ill with the plague and that thousands at a time would die. The Tartars then decided use “biological warfare” and catapult the diseased corpses into the city. Causing the Christians to flee on ship to Genoa. de’ Mussis goes into detail of how the plague spread from Genoa, blaming what happened in countries like Sicily and all of Italy. “Speak, Genoa, of what you have done. Describe, Sicily and Isole Pelagie, the judgements of God. Recount, Venice, Tuscany and the whole of Italy, what you have done” (Horrox, de’ Mussis pg. 19). He continues to go into more depth of how people were becoming infected. Gabriele de’ Mussis’s passage ends with him writing on how it was a time of suffering and that it came from God’s hand, and continues into some symptoms of the plague and accounts of how some patients with the plague had been cured do to a ointment and cutting of the boils that grew on their

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