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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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She Doesn’t Protest
In Florence in 1348, shortly after two of its biggest banks collapsed because the English king had defaulted on a loan, roughly two-thirds of the population died of the Black Death. Egg-shaped buboes swelled up in the victims’ armpits or groins, and ... (read full critics)
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This is it, the storybook which, one is tempted to say, began the modern European narrative tradition. It may seem a bit rich to call something over six and a half centuries old "modern", but look at it this way: this fine new translation, which runs ... (read full critics)