Giovanni Boccaccio, “Decameron”, Codex parigino, c. 1350-1375, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Département des manuscrits, Italy 482, fol. 6r ...

In the annus horribilis of 2020, as COVID-19 ravaged the world, a generation that had yet to experience a cataclysm of precisely this nature and scale turned to art for insight into how we might ...