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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.

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Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. c. 1353.

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

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Froissart, Jean. Chroniques. c. 1369, bk. 1.

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Froissart, Jean. Chronicles, translated and edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Penguin Classics, 1978, bk. 1.

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