Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

A Decameron Renaissance

By Guido Ruggiero

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Publish Date

2021

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Language

eng

Pages

297

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"--

subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Love in literature, Sex in literature, Renaissance, Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni)