Love and Sex in the Time of Plague : : A Decameron Renaissance / / Guido Ruggiero.
As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LOVE and SEX in the TIME of PLAGUE
- Listening to the Decameron
- 1 Laughter
- 2 Violence
- 3 Sorrow
- 4 Transcendence
- 5 Power
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX