Introduction : looking backward from a pandemic -- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War -- Giovanni Boccaccio, The decameron -- Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli, An epistle written concerning the plague -- François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel -- Daniel Defoe, A journal of the plague year -- Alessandro Manzoni, The betrothed -- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice -- Albert Camus, The plague -- Ingmar Bergman, The seventh seal -- José Saramago, Blindness
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