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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 (-5[1])of one of these events. A writer using the pseudonym Marchionne di Coppo Stefani wrote a chronicle of one of these events in Florence. The Republic of Ragusa established facilities known as lazarettos (15[1])for (*) visitors during one of these events. (10[1])One of these events gave rise to confraternities that performed flagellation as a form of penance. (10[1])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■ (10[1])

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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