“Late Medieval Art, Literature, and Plague”/ Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Quote a one (1) or two (2) line section that you enjoy from Petrarch, Chaucer, Boccaccio, or Christine de Pisan, and provide your reason(s) for the choice.
• Next, describe the historical significance of the writer whose work you have chosen.
• Comment on the degree to which the Black Death epidemic (1347-1350 CE) impacted that writer’s work.
• Compare the writer you chose to a specific writer (whether prose writer or poet or lyricist) of modern times.

Explore

Late Medieval Art, Literature, and Plague

• Chapter 13 (pp. 449-453, 456, 462-3), Boccaccio; (pp. 453-4), Petrarch; (pp. 454-6), Chaucer; (pp. 455-457), Christine de Pisan
• Chapter 13 ( 449-451, 458), The Plague
• The Plague at http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/black_death_of_1348_to_1350.htm