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Boccaccio's Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience

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

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...

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