Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio's Decameron
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April 8, 2020-- In this episode, professor Robert Harrison reflects on the ways in which the present Coronavirus pandemic gives new resonance to Boccaccio’s Decameron, which was written in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death of 1348.
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