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Pandemics2 quotes
There was no one who wept for any death, for all awaited death. — Agnolo di Tura del GrossoThey 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
Plague2 quotes
There was no one who wept for any death, for all awaited death. — Agnolo di Tura del GrossoThey 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
The Black Death2 quotes
There was no one who wept for any death, for all awaited death. — Agnolo di Tura del GrossoThey 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