The Decameron, written by one of the main representatives of Italian literature, Giovanni Bocaccio, tells the journey of a group of ten people that flee from the Black Death that desolated Florence. He starts the text by explaining how in the spring of 1348 the plague arrived in Florence, described by him as “the finest city of all Italy”: “[...] whether owing to the influence of the planets, or that it was sent from God as a just punishment for our sins, had broken out some years before in the Levant, and after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc all the way, had now reached the west.” He goes on explaining the symptoms and how people just died three days after presenting the first buboes, some purple spots in the groins, armpits, and necks. Moreover, he is surprised by the fact that nothing is capable of defeating the plague. Even when the city was sanitized and the remains were burnt, people would still die within a matter of days.

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