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People: Jean-Louis-Paul-François de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles
Topic: Italian Plague of 1629-31, or Great Plague of Milan
Location: Lingwu Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu (Nigsia Hui) China

Italian Plague of 1629-31, or Great Plague of Milan

Years: 1629 - 1631

The Italian Plague of 1629–1631, often referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, is a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague in northern Italy, claiming the lives of approximately 280,000 people, with the cities of Lombardy and Venice experiencing particularly high death rates.

This episode is considered one of the last outbreaks of the centuries-long pandemic of bubonic plague which began with the Black Death.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)