Prof. Mormando in The Wall Street Journal

Francis Rocca, the Rome correspondent of The Wall Street Journal interviewed Professor of Italian Franco Mormando in his article (March 21, 2020) about the relevance of reading descriptions of the bubonic plague epidemics in the Italian literary classics, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and the Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni, in the context of the current coronavirus epidemic, as experienced by Italians.