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In all the line of country which had been over-run by the army,

dead bodies had been found in the houses, as well as on the

roads. Soon after, throughout the whole country, entire families

were attacked with violent disorders, accompanied with unusual

symptoms, which the aged only remembered to have seen at the time

of the plague, which, fifty-three years before, had desolated a

great part of Italy, and principally the Milanese, where it was

and still is known by the name of the Plague of San Carlo. It

derives this appellation from the noble, beneficent, and

disinterested conduct of that great man, who at length became its

victim.