The Fortune Teller | Florence, Italy in AD 1348

The Plague

Death walks the land

The violence of this disease was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it. And it even went further. To speak to or go near the sick brought infection and a common death to the living; and moreover, to touch the clothes or anything else the sick had touched or worn gave the disease to the person touching. Giovanni Boccaccio

The Black Death arrives The bubonic plague invades Dying tend the dead.

Depression and despair, Death sits at the bedside, Smiles and waits, Though not for long.

The plague ends their world.

Bloodstream and lungs, Contact and breath, Going to bed well, Dying before they wake.

Has one sick person infected the world?

Devastation and depopulation, Pestilence No mercy No sparing the young.

Ghostly outlines remain where once mortals lived.

I saved only three, Two girls and a boy, Locked in the charnel houses, Their dead families’ homes, Left to die alone, I took them and fled Florence.

Rebekah

This is a fortune teller named Rebekah, living in Florence, Italy in AD 1348. A combination of a curse and her own powers has allowed her to live many centuries and travel all over the world.

I tell part of her story here.

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality, or the Plague) was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history. The Black Death resulted in the deaths of up to 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Plague, the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was the cause…..Wikipedia