Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio's Decameron
April 8, 2020-- Robert Harrison reflects on the ways in which the present Coronavirus pandemic gives new resonance to Boccaccio’s Decameron, written in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death of 1348.
April 8, 2020-- Robert Harrison reflects on the ways in which the present Coronavirus pandemic gives new resonance to Boccaccio’s Decameron, written in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death of 1348.