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Hardcover Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance Book

ISBN: 0674257820

ISBN13: 9780674257825

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance

(Part of the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series)

As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love.

For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni...

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