Love and Sex in the Time of Plague
Subtitle: A Decameron Renaissance
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780674257825
Subjects: Romance literature
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"--