1. The source is a chronicle.
2. Agnolio Di Tura wrote the source; he was the town's chronicler in south of Florence in Tuscany.
3. Di Tura worked for the city's financial magistracy so he may have had access to official records that may affect his perception of the events.
4. Di Tura wrote this chronicle because he wanted to describe the effects that The Black Death had upon citizens, including his own family. He mentions in this chronicle that he had to bury five of his own sons. He also mentions how the people started to charge more about burying people.
5. Di Tura reveals in this chronicle that while The Black Death was occurring families were abandoning each other, fathers were abandoning their sons, wives their husbands, and one brother
