Which literary work, completed in 1353, contains the tales of ten travellers escaping from the plague in Florence?
Disease in fiction Disease in fiction Diseases, both real and fictional, play a significant role in fiction, with certain diseases like Huntington's disease and tuberculosis appearing in many books and films. Pandemic plagues threatening all human life, such as "The Andromeda Strain", are among the many fictional diseases described in literature and film. Genuine plagues have formed the central elements of books from Giovanni Boccaccio's c. 1353 "The Decameron" onwards. Bocaccio tells the tales of ten people of Florence who escape from the Black Death in their city. The book inspired Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century "Canterbury Tales", which similarly tells the stories of
The Plague of Florence wasn't played until several days later. The Plague of Florence The Plague of Florence (German:Die Pest in Florenz) is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Otto Rippert for Eric Pommer's Deutsche Eclair (Decla) production company. It stars Marga Kierska, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard and Julietta Brandt. The film is set in Florence in 1348, just before the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death, which then spread out across the entire continent. Julia, a rich courtesan (Marga von Kierska), arrives in Florence. A cardinal fears that her beauty could rival the church's power, and orders inquiries to