Giovanni Boccaccio’s passage The Plague in Florence: From the Decameron is an insightful exert on the Black Death. Giovanni Boccaccio declares his assumptions, interests, and ideals on what started the plague and the cause of new forms of behavior from the people. This selection is just his introduction to his many tales an insightful introduction it is. Giovanni Boccaccio assumes that there is no hope after getting sick from the Black Death. He assumes this also because he assumes that the doctors are not qualified to take care of the sick. Once the more qualified doctors died other people that were not qualified tried to help. There were two major interests that encouraged him to write this passage. The first reason was to give understanding
