The introduction to the Decameron details Boccaccio’s own experiences during the Black Death in Florence, and he focuses particularly the impact that the plague had on society. We paired this text and image, based on a Florentine saint’s story, and then added as background music to convey the emotional impact of what Boccaccio describes. Since he focuses so much on the plague’s destruction of social bonds, particularly between mothers and their children, we decided to take a later image of a third-century saint being begged by a mother to save her child and transform it to show how the Black Death altered the normal societal structures of Florence. Boccaccio also describes the way servants were seen as taking advantage of the plague and so