Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories told by the book’s characters as they shelter from the 14th century Black Death in a villa outside Florence

This strikes Uni Wollongong’s Daniel Huto (head of Liberal Arts and the Ramsay western civ degree) as worth updating. “Assuming that there is no estate get-away ready-to-hand for most of us, we could keep intellectually alive and social connected though on-line story sharing and other similar forms of regular engagement and dialogue.”

Perhaps people will want to discuss this on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok (they liked a dance in the Decameron).