The Black Death
Short History Of...
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What Happened to the Poor People?
Boccaccio writes about this in the Decameron. He says people try to live a very healthy, as they think of it, a very australife where they only kind of eat a very little bit. They pray a lot and they just stay inside. But then he mentions, oh, yeah, and then all the poor people died. And there's still this whole huge class of people who are serving these rich people Who are like maybe, you know, boarded up in their house or maybe out partying.
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