Read Boccaccio's account of the plague in Florence at the link below. What can you tell about Boccaccio's values and concerns from this account? In what ways might seeing the kinds of things he describes affect his writing and his general view of life?Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Boccaccio's Account of the Black Death (extra credit)
Read Boccaccio's account of the plague in Florence at the link below. What can you tell about Boccaccio's values and concerns from this account? In what ways might seeing the kinds of things he describes affect his writing and his general view of life?
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After the incarnation of the Son of God, the plague hit the cities heavy and no "physician" known knew what to do. 3 days after catching the plague that person died 3 days later.
ReplyDeleteDue to the plague many people started thriving. Throwing many parties were a lot of drinking took part, anyone and everyone came to feast. Due to this everyone began to get sick and everything started over again
ReplyDeleteSome of Boccaccio's values of this account are that many people are getting sick and dying. People are avoiding each other no matter if they are related or not. Things are changing around them and their is nothing they can really do to stop all the diseases that are spreading, it's everywhere.
ReplyDeleteIn writing this somethings that may change how he writes and lives is that he might not know when it is his time to go. He wants to get all the information that he can written down before something happens and then there is no recollection of what had happened.
Once Florence was a beautiful city, but once the Black Plague hit no human had wisdom or foresight had value against it. Huge amounts of human waste were removed from the city and the already sick weren't allowed back into the city. The Plague made itself known not by nosebleeds, but it was known that you had the Plague if you had swelling in the groin and armpit, in either male or female. Many of the symptoms were able to get as big as a apple. After the swelling the "Gavoccioli" would spread throughout the body and began to take on the qualities of a deadly sickness. When these symptoms came about on the human body, it was a known thing that death was coming soon. The disease eventually got to the healthy people, but if someone was infected by the disease they could have spread it all throughout the city. All of these things led people to believe that if they isolated themselves from society that they wouldn't get sick like the others.
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