[200] Cant., IV. 4, p. 30; 5, p. 32; 20, p. 147.
[201] Cant., IV. 9, pp. 53-7.
[202] Raynaldus, ann. 1349, XXXI.
[203] Clement VI, Epp. Secr. viii. 248-50.
[204] Cant., IV. 13, p. 85.
[205] Marco Guazzo, Cronica, p. 269; Stella, Annales Genuenses, in Muratori, xvii, col. 1090.
[206] MS. Vatican 2040, cited by Muralt, ii. 618: Petrarch, Epp. fam. vii. 7. For historical and medical importance of the black death, see Hecker, Der schwarze Tod im 14ten Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1832). MSS. Bibl. Nat., Paris, fonds latin 8369-70, contain an interesting contemporary account, mostly in hexameter verse, by Symon de Cavino, a Paris physician.
[207] Breve Chronicon at end of Ducas, cited by Finlay, History of Greece, iv. 409 n.
[208] In 1340 Venice had refused a loan of ships and money to Edward III of England on the ground that she needed all her resources ‘to guard against the Turkish danger about to become universal’: Wiel, p. 204.
[209] On March 17, 1351, Petrarch addressed from Padua to Doge Andrea Dandolo a letter of remonstrance and warning against engaging in a war with Genoa. This letter is quoted in Hazlitt, iii. 122.