La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.
Chapter 2. “They Are Monsters, Not Men”
Chapter 3. The Day Before the Day of the Dead
Chapter 5. Villani’s Last Sentence
Chapter 6. The Curse of the Grand Master
Chapter 7. “Days of Death Without Sorrow”
Chapter 8. Heads to the West, Feet to the East
Chapter 10. “O Ye of Little Faith”
Chapter 11. “Only the End of the Beginning”