Giovanni Boccaccio

Waking up to ash and dust, I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust, I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus, this is it, the apocalypse. I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones, enough to make my system blow, I'm back in, I raise my flag. Giovanni Boccaccio is most well known for The Decameron, a work written during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance in Italy. The collection is structured as 100 tales, told over the span of 10 days by 7 ladies and 3 gentlemen. The word Decameron is derived from the Greek, it means literally 10 days. Although The Decameron is primarily known as a humorous work, the frame tale and background is very gloomy. In order to explain why 10 people would get together and tell stories to each other every day, Boccaccio invents a framed story about the Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, which was ravaging Florence at the time that he began writing The Decameron. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus, this is it, the apocalypse. I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones, enough to make my system blow. Welcome to the new age, to the new age, welcome to the new age, to the new age.