How have the recurring elements in the realities that poets and writers were experiencing, also in light of the explosion of the Black Death pandemic, been told in literature? There is a way of behaving men in the presence of fears, which Cecco Angiolieri and Franceschino degli Albizzi have lived and told, in Siena and Florence, telling us their meaning of life and death. https://milano.uildm.org/epidemie-nei-secoli-come-poeti-e-scrittori-hanno-raccontato-il-contagio.
“To escape reproof” is a poem by Franceschino degli Albizzi, born in Florence in the first half of the fourteenth century, died of the black plague in Savona in 1348. Friend of Francesco Petrarca, he was appreciated as a poet alongside Guittone d’Arezzo and Dante Alighieri.
IF I WERE FIRE – If I were fire, I would burn the world; if I were wind I would unleash the storm on it; if I were water, I would submerge it. If I were God, I would plunge him into an abyss. If I were Pope, then yes I would be happy, as I would get all Christians in trouble. If I were emperor, do you know what I would do? I would cut everyone’s head off. If I were death, I would go to my father, if I were life I would move away from him, in the same way I would behave with my mother. If I were Cecco, as I am and always have been, I would take young and attractive women for myself, and leave the old and ugly ones to others.http://bepi1949.altervista.org/cecco/s1.html
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