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In the reading, it mentioned Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a "story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outside the city". I was interested in learning more about the writer as well as the literary work. So, I started with Wikipedia. Some Background Info
Boccaccio was an Italian writer from Florence. His work the Decameron vividly describes the results of the Plague in Florence. During the story, one person tells a story per night at the villa. In all, 100 stories are told. This method of a people telling stories within a single story is similar to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. And on Wikipedia, it says that other writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucher were influenced by Boccaccio's Decameron.
Here's a link to a summary of of the novels. The summaries take a more analytical approach to Boccaccio's work than merely plot.
What caused all the all of the climate changes specifically? Also wasn’t it a strain of the flu that was the plague, or a was it something else? I was really interested to see both the climate change and the plague so close together.
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In the reading, it mentioned Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a "story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outside the city". I was interested in learning more about the writer as well as the literary work. So, I started with Wikipedia.
Some Background Info
Boccaccio was an Italian writer from Florence. His work the Decameron vividly describes the results of the Plague in Florence. During the story, one person tells a story per night at the villa. In all, 100 stories are told. This method of a people telling stories within a single story is similar to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. And on Wikipedia, it says that other writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucher were influenced by Boccaccio's Decameron.
Here's a link to a summary of of the novels. The summaries take a more analytical approach to Boccaccio's work than merely plot.
Summaries
What caused all the all of the climate changes specifically? Also wasn’t it a strain of the flu that was the plague, or a was it something else? I was really interested to see both the climate change and the plague so close together.
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