The Florentine Plague Pit Boccaccio Described Has Been Found Under Santa Maria Novella
Giovanni Boccaccio opened the *Decameron* with one of the most famous descriptions of a medieval plague pit ever written. Modern Florentine osteoarchaeology has identified a 14th-century mass-burial site beneath the Santa Maria Novella complex that matches the *Decameron*'s description in unsettling detail.
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