The medieval literary classic, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccoccio (1313-75), has nothing on the sordid tryst between the New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian and disgraced former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire. More than a little appropriately, both are set in a time of plague but, more broadly, a period in which, according to The New Yorker, “the values of the Middle Ages (valour, faith, transcendence) were yielding to those of the Renaissance (enjoyment, business, the real).”
I am not in any way accusing Berejiklian of being corrupt.
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