During this frenzy, many responded by trying to flee the plague and running off into the countryside, stated in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (1353). Boccaccio also recalled some taking advantage of the ill, the sick being deserted, rushed burials, wasting fields, wandering animals. ...

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