Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance by Guido Ruggiero

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

Guido Ruggiero

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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 Ital...

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