Awakening Desire: Boccaccio, Dante, and the Birth of the Renaissance

Renaissance was an answer to the Black Death.

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Huge movements that shape the course of history always start in a small group. In the mid-14th century, Europe was devastated by a plague known as the Black Death. According to some sources, one-third of the population of Europe died. At such a time as this, people always face a difficult choice — to despair and “die before you die” or to …