This revisionist account of the economic, literary and social history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death connects warfare with the plague narrative.
Caferro pays close attention to the meaning of wages.
Organised around Petrarch\'s \'war\' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349-1350, which formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio, William Caferro\'s work examines the institutional and economic effects of the war, alongside literary and historical patterns.
This revisionist account of the economic, literary and social history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death connects warfare with the plague narrative