"In 1590 [...] the Florentine Agostino Lapini noted that the peninsula-wide famine was so extensive that 'they are milling the husks of the grain together with what can be sieved and a small amount of flour. The bakers sell it by weight to poor people at 2 soldi and eight dinari a pound, and this is bread that in any other time would have been given to the dogs, and even then they might not have eaten it.'"
Evelyn Welch, Shopping in the Renaissance