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Machiavelli in love : sex, self, and society in the Italian Renaissance / Guido Ruggiero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Italy--History.
- Sex customs.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Sex role.
- History.
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Italy.
- Sex--Social aspects--Italy--History.
- Sex.
- Sex role--Italy--History.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Machiavelli in Love introduces a complex concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's study counters the current consensus among historians and literary critics that there was little sense of individual identity and virtually no sense of sexual identity before the modern period.
- Contents:
- 1 Of Birds, Figs, and Sexual Identity in the Renaissance, or The Marescalco's Boy Bride 19
- 2 Playing with the Devil: The Pleasures and Dangers of Sex and Play 41
- 3 The Abbot's Concubine: Renaissance Lies, Literature, and Power 71
- 4 Brunelleschi's First Masterpiece, or Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, Masculine Spaces, and Identity in Renaissance Florence 85
- 5 Machiavelli in Love: The Self-Presentation of an Aging Lover 108
- 6 Death and Resurrection and the Regime of Virtu, or Of Princes, Lovers, and Prickly Pears 163
- Afterword. How Machiavelli Put the Devil Back in Hell 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801885167
- OCLC:
- 69013324
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801885167
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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