Giovanni Boccacio's account of the plague in Florence, what role do science and professional medical knowledge have in his account? Also, relate his account of the plague to today – what information do we bring to the extract? How does our understanding of modern medicine lead us to understand what is happening in this text in a way that Boccacio's contemporaries would not have?

Giovanni Boccacio's account of the plague in Florence, what role do science and professional medical knowledge have in his account? Also, relate his account of the plague to today – what information do we bring to the extract? How does our understanding of modern medicine lead us to understand what is happening in this text in a way that Boccacio's contemporaries would not have?