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“L’Attuno,” by Giovanni Battista Caccini, Florence

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Illustration of comet over Florence before the plague, by Conrad Lycosthenes, 1340

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L0005342 C. Lycosthenes, 1340 comet in sky and plague at Florence Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Comet seen in the sky: 1340 and plague at Florence in which 16,000 people died Printed Text with Illustration Prodigiorum ac ostentorum Chronicon Lycosthenes, Conradus Published: 1557 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/