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    Which Italian term did Bocaccio use to describe the apple-size buboes found under the armpits, due to the plague?

    Question #97756. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Jul 21 08 1:28 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		Tumore meaning tumor -- "Not such were they as in the East, where an issue of blood from the nose was a manifest sign of inevitable death; but in men and women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumors in the groin or the armpits, some of which grew as large as a common apple, others as an egg, some more, some less…"

    Giovanni Boccaccio "The Decameron"

    http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/general/articles/BlackDeath.aspx

    http://www.wordreference.com/enit/TUMOR

    Jul 21 08, 5:11 AM

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