Boccaccio's Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience
- Written by Frances Di Lauro, Senior Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies, University of Sydney

In the year then of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy, a most terrible plague…
Giovanni Boccaccio introduces his acclaimed collection of novellas, the Decameron, with a reference to the most terrifying...