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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“brother was forsaken by brother, nephew by uncle, brother by sister, and oftentimes husband by wife”
The Decameron, First Day: Introduction, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
From the description of the Black Death in Florence in 1348, where Boccaccio records how fear of contagion broke the bonds of family and charity.
Citation: "brother was forsaken by brother, nephew by uncle, brother by sister, and oftentimes husband by wife" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, First Day: Introduction, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q2)
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
