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Giovanni Boccaccio, Prologue to the Decameron

Black death in Florence (1348) Boccaccio’s description of the outbreak of the Black Death in Florence in 1348 is a valuable source of information not only for historians but also for those who study human behaviour under extreme conditions. As an eyewitness the author of the Decameron reported in details how different groups and classes […]

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