"Recent scholarship... has repeated Boccaccio’s portrayal of the doctors during the Black Death as futile and helpless. This is an erroneous interpretation, as there is indisputable evidence of professionalism and practicality in the tractates of 1348. The wills of townspeople in Bologna during the height of the epidemic further demonstrate that doctors, professors of medicine, and barber-surgeons were staying in town and tending the sick."
"Boccaccio and the doctors: medicine and compassion in the face of plague"
Dr. Abschaum Von Erde
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