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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Listening to the Decameron: an introduction
- Laughter: imagining love, lust, and virtù in the Rinascimento
- Violence: scorn, retribution, and civilized courtship
- Tears: love, mourning, and self in the time of the plague
- Transcendence: love, sexual pleasure, and a woman as savior
- Power: the prince who refused to love or Griselda reconsidered
- Conclusion: A Decameron renaissance?