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When the founder of the Mongol empire, Genghis Khan, railed against “eaters of sweet greasy food [who wear] garments of gold . . . [and] hold in their arms the loveliest of women,” he might have had the Genoese in mind.
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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