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Love and sex in the time of the plague : a Decameron renaissance /

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 vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruggiero, Guido, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > Decamerone > Criticism and interpretation.
Love in literature.
Sex in literature.
Renaissance.
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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.
Physical Description:306 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674257825
0674257820