The Decameron

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They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they arrived by hundreds at a time, piling them up tier upon tier as merchandise is stowed in a ship.

Giovanni Boccaccio

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Topic

The Black Death Plagues Pandemics

Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Source

The Decameron

Language

Italian

Time

1353 1350s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. c. 1353.

Current Citation

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

In this extremity of our city's suffering and tribulation the revered authority of laws, human and divine, was abased and all but totally dissolved, for lack of those who should have administered and enforced them, most of whom, like the rest of the citizens, were either dead or sick, or so hard pressed for servants that they were unable to execute any office; whereby every man was free to do what was right in his own eyes.

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron

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More information about this quote

Topic

The Black Death Plague

Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Source

The Decameron

Language

Italian

Time

1353 1350s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. c. 1353.

Current Citation

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.