Boccaccio's The Decameron

The following excerpt is an excerpt from The Decameron of Boccaccio. It details the influence of medieval lives, especially black death and plague.

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Films and books on epidemic seems to be the present phenomenon, but its origin can be traced back to the publication of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1350's. Boccaccio's work is the story of the ten people who are under the control of Black Death and have left Florence looking for village safety. Ten Florentine people are concerned that this "infectious mortality rate" is correct. Black death started in Central Asia in the 1330s and then spread throughout the trade route to Europe and the Middle East (Figure 2). It arrived from the Crimean 's Crimean trade boat, from there to the rest of Europe, and in the process killed one - third of the population of Europe. Without commercial and intense trade between Europe and Asia, black death can not achieve fashion.

At Decaceron of Boccaccio, he explained the black death in 1348 and explained how it affects Florence. According to Boccaccio, the plague occurs in the eastern part, and despite many precautions taken, it still arrived in Florence. People in Florence tried to prevent the spread of plague by cleaning the city, rejecting patients to the city, and taking many health precautions to fight the plague. He stated that some black wounds are one of the main symptoms of Black Death and doctors can hardly do what they can to save people with this disease. He stated that most people died in about three days after the appearance of pain, as they could not tolerate the plague. He stated that it is contagious and could spread from person to person. In fact, anyone who touches infected people's clothing is prone to this disease.

By 1348, Pesto reached the interior of Italy including Florence, lost half of the population. Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio witnessed and wrote an article about the plague in his book "Ten Days". In his introduction, Boccaccio explains the shocking ways that Florentine people presented during the plague. How sympathetic people and their relatives met intimately. . . Not only that, there are no people thinking that their father and mother gave up on their children, there are not people taking care of them, and they can not visit like strangers.