Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

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Love and Sex in the Time of Plague is written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674259564 (ISBN 10) and 9780674259560 (ISBN 13).

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.