A Boccaccian response to Covid-19

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron in a facsimile of manuscript 5070 from the  Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris (15th century)).

We're experiencing unprecedented times. Except that they are not. Plagues, wars, epidemics, the continent has seen them all. And it has sung them all. Will we know how to sing before it's all behind us?

Boccaccio knew how to sing.…