Quote of the Day (Giovanni Boccaccio)

“The best thing for us to do in our present situation would be to leave the city. We should go and stay on one of our various country estates, having as much fun as possible. There we will have a clearer view of the heavens, which are so much more attractive to look at than the walls of our empty city.”- “The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio, written in 1351 after the Black Death