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The Inferno
- Dante - plaque designed using a quote from this read, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"
The Prince
- Machiavelli - "A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. Before all else, be armed. Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. "
Castiglione
- Renaissance author - Most recognizable work of literature- The Courtier
The Decameron
- book of tales by Boccaccio in which he describes the Black Death - "Not such were they as in the East, where an issue of blood from the nose was a manifest sign of inevitable death; but in men and women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumours in the groin or the armpits, some of which grew as large as a common apple, others as an egg, some more, some less, which the common folk called gavoccioli. From the two said parts of the body this deadly gavocciolo soon began to propagate and spread itself in all directions indifferently; after which the form of the malady began to change, black spots or livid making their appearance in many cases on the arm or the thigh or elsewhere, now few and large, now minute and numerous. " - Giovanni Boccacio