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Aldo D. Scaglione.
Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages [An Essay on the Cultural Context of the Decameron].
Published Berkeley: California U.P., 1963.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x234x25mm.
Page count: x,250pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; some bumps & knocks on it boards, not too severe; some foxing on the page edges and endpapers; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 626g.

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Contents: The problem of nature; French mainstreams of medieval naturalism; The Decameron; Morality as conciliation between nature & society; Movement to & from naturalism in Boccaccio’s career; Epilogue — nature’s progress, or emancipation of the negative.
Appendix: Naturalism in late medieval & early Renaissance art.

Illustrations: 9 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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