Sanford, “Section 157,” in The Textbook of Medicine, ed. Paul B. Beeson, Walsh McDermott, and and James B. Wyngaarden (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1975), 462-63.
- Boccaccio, “Introduction,” 4. Here we find an admirable description of buboes.
- Boccaccio, “Introduction,” 4. Boccaccio is clearly suspicious of medical care in his era and is aware of the many charlatans pretending to be doctors
- Boccaccio, “Introduction,” 7-8. With multiple direct quotes by the author.
- Boccaccio, “Introduction,” 5-7. This section on Florentine behavior in the 1348 plague is easily the most significant part of the Introduction since today’s reader, enduring the 2020 pandemic, can in no way avoid relating to it.
- See Vittore Branca’s words in his brilliant study, Boccaccio. The Man and His Works, trans. Richard Monges (New York: New York University Press, 1976), 247.
List of References
- Boccaccio, Giovanni. “Introduction.” In The Decameron, translated and edited by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella, 3-17. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977.
- Branca, Vittore, Boccaccio. The Man and His Works, translated by Richard Monges. New York: New York University Press, 1976.
- Byrne, Joseph, The Black Death. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 2004.
- Sanford, Jay. “Section 157.” In The Textbook of Medicine, edited by Paul B. Beeson, Walsh McDermott, and James B. Wyngaarden. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1975.
CONSTANCE MARKEY, PHD, has enjoyed two careers. While working as a registered nurse (1957-79) she also studied Italian, and in 1970 earned an MA in Italian at the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Italian literature at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana in 1980. In 1984 she accepted a position at DePaul University in Chicago where she was named head of the Italian Section. She continued to teach at DePaul until her retirement in 2004.