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Pietro Parisi was dispatched to Malta during one of these events and later published his observations during it. The nobleman Aloysius Gonzaga was canonized for aiding victims of (15[1])one of these events. A writer (15[1])using the pseudonym Marchionne di Coppo Stefani wrote a chronicle of one of these events in Florence. (15[1])The Republic of Ragusa established facilities known as (15[1])lazarettos (15[1])for (*) visitors during one of these events. One of these events gave rise to confraternities that performed flagellation (10[1])as a form of penance. (10[2])One of these events may have started in Messina after Genoese ships landed there from Caffa. A Venetian directive imposing 40-day isolation period during one of these events gave rise to the word “quarantine.” For 10 points, name these epidemics caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. ■END■

ANSWER: plagues [accept outbreaks or epidemics of bubonic plague; accept the Black Death; prompt on outbreaks or epidemics with “of what disease?”]
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