italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
How about some Boccaccio's sources, namely Diaconus's description of the plague in the Historia Langobardorum? Is that still considered solely a Late Antiquity source?
 
Cordialmente,
Enrico Santangelo, PhD 

 
2008/2/11, Alison Cornish <[log in to unmask]>:
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Can anyone think of representations of natural (as opposed to
apocalyptic) disasters represented in medieval Italian literature other
than the Decameron?
grazie mille

Alison Cornish
Associate Professor of Italian Literature
Romance Languages and Literatures
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
Tel. (734) 764-5344
Fax (734) 764-8163

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