The Decameron
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Death changed in Florence in the 14th century. Plague plundered the famous Italian city like a foreign army wreaking wrath.
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PEOPLE died daily. In the mornings, in front of the houses one could see corpses the tireless gravediggers or becchini had not yet collected. Graveyards were full. A local chronicler described how dozens of corpses were “stacked in layers like cheese in lasagne.”
The plague was a swift killer. Around 8,000 schoolchildren, 30,000 spinners, 600 notaries and lawyers, 60 doctors and 140 priests were listed among the dead. In the end, 50,
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