Title: Love and Sex in the Time of Plague
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)