CSC #20 "Decameron" with Crush, Yayra Sumah and Ishai Mishory 30.03.2020

In a time of social distancing, fears of touching other human beings and the
transformation of the sprawling prosperous cities we live in into eerie ghost
towns, how can we not think back to our predecessors’ treatments of plagues?
Some of us cast their minds to Michel Foucault’s treatment plague quarantines (a
clear throwback from the AIDS epidemic that was raging in his own time), while
others will go further, to the source as it were – Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il
Decameron (“The Ten Days”), sometimes referred to as ‘The Human Comedy.’ The
trecento Tuscan writer presents a frame narrative about a brigata, or party, of
seven young women and three young men who pass the titular ten days in a
secluded luxury villa in the Tuscan countryside – escaping the Black Death, the
pandemic of bubonic fever that was laying waste to Florence at the time. To
while away the hours, when they are not takin...

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