Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero. I Tatti Studies in Ital...
Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 292 pp. $49.95
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Through an attentive analysis of the text, the volume convincingly shows how the Decameron documents the shift in the meaning attributed to virtù that was happening at the time, a notion that subsequently played a fundamental role in the Italian Renaissance and became pivotal in Machiavelli's Prince. Starting from Stephen Greenblatt's concept of Re...
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Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 292 pp. $49.95
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0034-4338
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1935-0236
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10.1017/rqx.2023.491
