La peste como catástrofe y palingenesia en la literatura italiana (y no sólo)

Abstract

The plague has been described many times during centuries: sometimes it has
been only visualized as a catastrophy, but also like a cause of regeneration of
humanity. Tucydides on classical Greece, but also Boccaccio in Middle Age,
Manzoni at the Romantical era, and eventually Camus in modern times have
dedicated their literary art at plague description — and interpretation of its consecuences.