Ka cika wannan jumla: Amma, wannan lokacin na ni'ima bai daɗe ba. An ce an shigo da Black Death zuwa Turai a shekara ta 1347 daga tashar kasuwanci ta Genoese a Caffa a Crimea a kan Bahar Maliya. Bayan rugujewar tattalin arziki da yawan jama'a wanda ya haifar, Genoa ta karɓi tsarin Venetian na gwamnati kuma Doge na Genoa ne ke jagoranta. Yaƙe-yaƙe tare da Venice sun ci gaba, kuma Yaƙin Chioggia (1378<unk>1381) <unk> lokacin da Genoa kusan ta yi nasarar cin nasara da Venice <unk> ya ƙare tare da dawo da mulkin Venice a cikin Adriatic. A shekara ta 1390, Genoa ta fara da
Crusade na Barbary, tare da taimakon Faransawa, kuma sun kewaye Mahdia, babban birnin Fatimid na Ifriqiya.