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They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they… — Giovanni Boccaccio

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.

In the original Italian

Fosse gradnissime nelle quali a centinaia si mettevano i spravegnenti; e in quelle stivati, come sil mettono le mercantie nelle navi a suolo a suolo.

Giovanni Boccaccio
1353
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The Black DeathPlaguePandemics
Time
1353Middle Ages
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Original citation
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. c. 1353.

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