Love and sex in the time of plague : a Decameron Renaissance

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Title
"Love and sex in the time of plague : a Decameron Renaissance"
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Guido Ruggiero
Publisher
  • Harvard University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-287) and index

Summary: "Guido Ruggiero brings readers back to Renaissance Florence, capturing how the Decameron sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece of love, sex, loyalty, and betrayal resonated amid the Black Death and the era's convulsive political change, reimagining truth and virtue in a moment both desperate and full of potential"-- Provided by publisher

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