Love and Sex in the Time of Plague A Decameron Renaissance |
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| Author:
| Ruggiero, Guido |
| Series title: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-25782-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2021 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.