(ANSA) - Pisa, March 16 - Pisa's Scuola Normale university
has organised an online reading of Giovanni Boccacio's classic
Decameron, the bawdy tales told by young people fleeing
plague-set Florence, with 300 people taking part inside and
outside Italy amid the coronavirus pandemic from now until May
11.
"Like the young people who in Boccacio's work decide to leave
Florence and take refuge in the country to flee the contagion of
the plague, the readers and other users will rediscover the
pleasure of reading and listening to the best pages of Italian
literature, and sharing it together", the elite university said.
Pisa uni reads Decameron online
'Like the youths who fled the plague' says elite uni