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Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance

By Guido Ruggiero

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780674259584
DOI
10.4159/9780674259584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3386353 bytes)
Pages
288\316
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 07:49:46

Description

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.

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