Plague and Pleasure Melvyn C. Resnick This thought-provoking book contributes important

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Plague and Pleasure Melvyn C. Resnick This thought-provoking book contributes importantPlague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination