The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly

To the Mongols, the Genoese seemed vainglorious, supercilious, and deeply duplicitous, the kind of people who would name their children after you—as the Dorias of Genoa had named three sons after three Mongol notables; Huegu, Abaka, and Ghazan—while picking your pocket.