The Eyewitness Account Of Death By Marilyn Migiel
The eyewitness account of the plague in Florence, Italy in 1384, talked about by Marilyn Migiel, was the author of the Decameron himself. Giovanni Boccaccio’s account of the plague is seemingly an eyewitness account because he “filtered his stories through other literary and historical descriptions of plagues” (Migiel 17). Boccaccio describes the plague as having baffling symptoms, the certainty of death, the overbearing presence of death and the dying, the procedures for trying to avoid the plague, the forsaken cities, and the effects on morals and decency (Migiel 17).
In a translation about the plague, Paul Deacon said, “In the times of this man a very great pestilence broke out, particularly in the province of Liguria. For suddenly
In a translation about the plague, Paul Deacon said, “In the times of this man a very great pestilence broke out, particularly in the province of Liguria. For suddenly