Boccaccio's Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience
- Written by Frances Di Lauro, Senior Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies, University of Sydney
A scene from the Decameron painted by Carlo Coppede in 1916.Sailko/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAIn 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...





