Giovanni
Boccaccio
(1313-1375)
"I say, then, that
the years of the beatific incarnation of the Son of God had reached the
tale of one thousannd three hundred and forty eight, when in the illustrious
city of Florence, the fairest of all the cities of Italy, there made its
appearance that deadly
pestilence, which,
whether disseminated by the influence of the celestial bodies, or sent
upon us mortals by God in His just
wrath by way of
retribution for our iniquities, had had its origin some years before in
the East, whence, after destroying an
innumerable multitude
of living beings, it had propagated itself without respite from place to
place, and so calamitously, had
spread into the
West"
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