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Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Book VI The Plague

“Erano gli anni della fruttifera Incarnazione del Figliuolo di Dio al numero pervenuti di mille trecento quarant’otto, quando nell’ egregia citta di Fiorenza oltre ad ogni altra Italica bellissima, pervenna la mortifera pestilenza.”— Boccaccio, “Introduzione al Decamerone”.

“The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death-fraught pestilence.”—“Introduction to the Decameron”.

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