Love and sex in the time of plague: a Decameron Renaissance

Introduction: Listening to the Decameron: an introduction -- Laughter: imagining love, lust, and virtù in the Rinascimento -- Violence: scorn, retribution, and civilized courtship -- Tears: love, mourning, and self in the time of the plague -- Transcendence: love, sexual pleasure, and a woman as sav...

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1. Verfasser: Ruggiero, Guido 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; London Harvard University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Listening to the Decameron: an introduction -- Laughter: imagining love, lust, and virtù in the Rinascimento -- Violence: scorn, retribution, and civilized courtship -- Tears: love, mourning, and self in the time of the plague -- Transcendence: love, sexual pleasure, and a woman as savior -- Power: the prince who refused to love or Griselda reconsidered -- Conclusion: A Decameron renaissance?
"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:306 Seiten
ISBN:9780674257825