A Tale from the Decameron, by John William Waterhouse, 1916

This New Statesman piece that explains how The Decameron – a 14th-century Italian book shows us how to survive coronavirus. Narrative practices play a central part in this story: “Boccaccio’s prescription for an epidemic was a good dose of “narrative prophylaxis”. That meant protecting yourself with stories”

Assuming that there is no estate get away ready-to-hand for most of us, we could keep intellectually alive and social connected though online story sharing and other similar forms of regular engagement and dialogue.