1350s · Skopia

Showing 6 works across all media from the 1350s

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

1350 · National Palace Museum, Taipei

A collector loved the scroll so much he tried to have it burned with him at death. It was pulled from the fire in two pieces.

★ 8.0

Fiction · Frame story

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

1353 · 909 pages

Ten young Florentines flee the plague to a country house and spend ten days telling a hundred stories of seduced wives, crooked friars, and lucky fools. The jokes still land six centuries later.

★ 7.5

Nonfiction · Travel literature

The Travels

Ibn Battuta

1355 · 472 pages

Ibn Battuta left Morocco at twenty-one for the hajj and stayed away twenty-nine years, judging cases in Delhi and crossing the Sahara to Mali. He dictated all 75,000 miles from memory.

★ 6.7

They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they arrived by hundreds at a time, piling them up tier upon tier as merchandise is stowed in a ship.

Giovanni Boccaccio

1353

★ 3.7

In this extremity of our city's suffering and tribulation the revered authority of laws, human and divine, was abased and all but totally dissolved, for lack of those who should have administered and enforced them, most of whom, like the rest of the citizens, were either dead or sick, or so hard pressed for servants that they were unable to execute any office; whereby every man was free to do what was right in his own eyes.

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron · 1353

★ 2.0

Poem

O you who hear within these scattered verses The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart In my first errant youthful days when I In part was not the man I am today.

Petrarch

1352

★ 1.1