Reading The Betrothed
During the 2020 Pandemic
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni, is a literary explication of Italian history in the early sixteen hundreds, and which includes a section on the bubonic plague that ravaged Milan then. The factual reports of public reactions to the bubonic plague in the novel are compared here to factual reports of public reactions to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in mainstream media. Not a lot changed in 400 years.