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‘La peste’, wood engraving by Hans Weiditz the Younger, for Francesco Petrarca's Trostspiegel im Glüuck und Unglüuck, Augsburg, 1535. The victims include wild and domestic animals as well as humans. The person on the bed has a bubo in the axilla. (Wellcome Library, London.)
