Giovanni Boccaccio
When the bubonic plague hit Florence in 1348, writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio fled the city and stayed in the Tuscan countryside.
During this period, he wrote The Decameron, a collection of novellas framed as stories a group of friends tells each other while quarantined.
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