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DEAD DONKEYS.

January 30, 2008 at 2:45 PM · History

DEAD DONKEYS. Adam Gopnik reported here that “during the war between Siena & Florence in the middle of the 13th century, the Florentines attempted to start a plague in Siena by catapulting dead donkeys over the city walls….”