The plague that attacked the lungs was the pneumonic plague, a particularly devastating form of the bubonic plague. There is a link below.
the causes of the plague was the fleas on the rats they bit the rats and then when the rats died they moved on to bite the humans
The first time the Bubonic Plague struck was in the 6th century, and took place in the Byzantine Empire. The Bubonic Plague took the lives of around 50 million people in the Roman Empire alone.
after the black plague
black death (plague) and crusades
The Decameron was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and was completed around 1353.
The significance of Decameron is that it was a work produced to document effects of the Bubonic Plague. Physical, social and mental effects are documented in a series of short stories.
* The Decameron (subtitled: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 Novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio and written in Italian. The meaning of the 'Decameron' is Greek for "ten" (δέκα déka) and "day. " The 'Decameron' writings begin during the Black Death and leads a group of seven women and three men who flee from plague-ridden Florence to a villa in what was then called 'Fiesole' for two weeks. These works by Boccaccio were considered 'bawdy' stories ... in other words pornography.
the first novella
The frame story of "The Decameron" is set in Florence, Italy, during the Black Death plague of the 14th century. Ten people flee the city to escape the disease and take refuge in a villa in the countryside, where they share stories to pass the time.
Mirko Bevilacqua has written: 'L' ideologia letteraria del Decameron'
The Decameron was created in 1353.
Giovanni Boccaccio is the author of The Decameron
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Decameron itself is a series of one hundred short stories told over ten days and is set against the backdrop of plague-ridden Florence. It chronicles a vivid portrait of the Florentine and Italian world . Amusing and provocative , this text is far more than a mere collection of tales.
Decameron - album - was created in 1992.
The Cook's Decameron was created in 1901.