The city was losing its population in the early 15th century, and then an earthquake on 5 December 1456 reduced it to rubble and ruins, apart from a guard tower. Even its cathedral was destroyed.[3]
^All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
^Maria Stella Calò Mariani, "I villages désertés della Capitanata. Fiorentino e Montecorvino", in Atti del 27º convegno sulla preistoria-protostoria-storia della Daunia (San Severo, 2007), pp. 56-57. See photograph of cathedral ruins on p. 82.
