An illegitimate son, Boccaccio wanted to normalize stigmas. Novo noted his "latent desire to make everyone recognize the purity of adultery, of which Lato was the product, and to establish free love as proof that his presence in the world was not spurious.

As a practicing Catholic, Boccaccio met the first of his muses in church (Petrarch also saw Laura before an altar). At the conclusion of the Decameron , he did something his characters would never do: he repented and asked the admired poet for advice. Petrarch urged him to publish the stories, although years later Phone Number List would say that it was "a youth book, written in prose for the use of the people." Unlike Dante, Boccaccio makes Hell and Paradise on earth. He judges that the epidemic may be a divine curse, but he reveals the human condition in the absence of God.In 1348, ten people met in a garden in Italy. At noon they sought the shade to tell stories: each word lengthened life. That inspired seclusion would give another name to the times of the plague: Renaissance.




When a State enters into crisis, war metaphors multiply, limit and defeat of the social imagination. In 2020, several governments gave in to the temptation of referring to Covid-19 in military terms, a useless resource, since the front could not be located, the enemy was advancing unseen and the defense consisted of avoiding the event. That empty narrative dominated the majority of the population. The events happened on distant islands: the hospitals. Is it possible to tell an "epic of inaction"? The health personnel and the infected lived a specific drama while the vast majority breathed in an ellipsis.