Syracuse
A city on the east coast of Sicily, south of Catania, which the plague struck in 1348.
Today: Syracuse (Siracusa), Sicily, Italy
The Plague Comes to Messina and Catania
Anonymous of Catania, Sicilian History, printed in Rosario Gregorio’s Bibliotheca scriptorum (1791) · after April 1348 (events of October 1347 to April 1348)
Disperguntur itaque Messanenses per universam insulam Sicilie, & pergentes in civitatem Siragusie, adeo illa egritudo sic infecit Siragusanos, quod diversos immo immensos letaliter interfecit; terra Xacce, terra Trapani, & civitas Agrigenti, Messane similiter de hujusmodi pestilentia sociarunt; & præcipue terra Trapani, que quasi popolo viduata remansit.
So the people of Messina scattered over the whole island of Sicily. When they reached the city of Syracuse, the sickness struck the people there and killed many, a vast number. The towns of Xacca and Trapani and the city of Agrigento shared Messina’s pestilence as well. Trapani above all was left almost empty of people.