Italian Plague of 1629-31, or Great Plague of Milan
1629 CE
to 1631 CE
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.
