PLAGUE UNRAVELED SOCIETY. “And worse, the people turned on each other. Parents abandoned children; husbands turned their backs on their wives. The streets were filled with the dead, and neighbors sometimes learned of a death next door by the smell. The living didn’t have time to mourn; Boccaccio says that due to the large number of dead and the fear of their presence, “a dead man was then of no more account than a dead goat would be today.””
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022