Source
Source: Woodcut in: Francesco Petrarca, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück. Franckfurt am Mayn: Egenolff (1584), page 189. MDZ, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11200496-9
The image below depicts a woman dying of the plague. She is surrounded by human and animal corpses, and her attendants have no better protection than handkerchiefs pressed to their faces.
Source: Woodcut in: Francesco Petrarca, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück. Franckfurt am Mayn: Egenolff (1584), page 189. MDZ, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11200496-9