Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353) is a classic plague book. It follows 10 noble people quarantining together in a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. They have fled Florence where in 1348, when the story is set, a deadly Black Death outbreak is raging. While the sick are abandoned and the lower classes... read full story
"What starts as a wine-soaked sex romp, descends into a race for survival."