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Love and sex in the time of the plague : a Decameron renaissance by Guido Ruggiero is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Love and sex in the time of the plague : a Decameron renaissance about?
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.
Who reads Love and sex in the time of the plague : a Decameron renaissance?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Guido Ruggiero
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674259584
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Anthropology, History
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