mortalega

Updated: June 26, 2025

On account of these inflammatory boils, and from the black spots, indicatory of a putrid decomposition, which appeared upon the skin, it was called in Germany and in the northern kingdoms of Europe the Black Death, and in Italy, la mortalega grande, the Great Mortality.

J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker - The Black Death : The Dancing Mania