A HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD IN ONE SUMMER: the plague empties Florence, and seven ladies and three young men flee to the hills to tell each other stories so as not to lose their minds
Florence, summer of 1348. The plague come from the East has killed, so it is believed, more than a hundred thousand souls between March and July. The dead are buried in pits, in layers, like cargo in a ship's hold. In a half-empty church, ten young people decide that, if the world is ending, it…
