In Val Moriana, forty thousand expired out of a total of seventy thousand.

The village of San Giovanni counted but twelve survivors from a population of more than four thousand souls.

In May 1599, the inhabitants of Turin were reduced by flight and death to four thousand; and of these there died daily numbers gradually rising through the summer from 50 to 180.

The streets were encumbered with unburied corpses, the houses infested by robbers and marauders.

Some incidents reported of this plague are ghastly in their horror.