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?
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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