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Life expectancy in Italy fell sharply between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from 35-40 years in the 1200s to 18 by 1500.

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demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.

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  1. Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
    In Italy, average life expectancies in the solidly Medieval 1200s were 35-40, while by the year 1500 (definitely Renaissance) life expectancy in Italian city states had dropped to 18.

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    ↗Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Agesexurbe.com

    4 Jun 2020

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