La peste como catástrofe y palingenesia en la literatura italiana (y uno sólo)

Abstract

The plague has been described many times during centuries: sometimes it has been only visualized as a catastrophy, but also like a cause of regeneration of humanity. Tucydides on classical Greece, but also Boccaccio in Middle Age, Manzoni at the Romantical era, and eventually Camus in modern times have dedicated their literary art at plague description — and interpretation of its consecuences.