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in the Decameron, describing Florence.
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Sorry for a momentary technological glitch,
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but we'll get there.
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There we are.
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This is Boccaccio describing Florence in 1348.
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"Let us omit that one Citizen fled after another,
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and one neighbor had not any care of another,
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parents nor kindred ever visiting them,
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but utterly they were forsaken on all sides:
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this tribulation pierced into the hearts of men,
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and with such a dreadful terror,
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that one brother forsook another,