Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy / edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matthews Grieco, Sara F.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in art.

Arts, Italian.

Arts, Renaissance.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Arts and society.

Italy.

Arts and society--Italy.

Italien--Erotische Kunst--Geschichte 1400-1600--Aufsatzsammlung.

Local Subjects:

Italien--Erotische Kunst--Geschichte 1400-1600--Aufsatzsammlung.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xviii, 281 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Hunting for birds in the Italian Renaissance / Guido Ruggiero

Visual testimony and verbal games. Satyrs and sausages : erotic strategies and the print market in cinquecento Italy / Sara F. Matthews-Grieco

The erotic fantasies of a model clerk : amateur pornography at the beginning of the cinquecento / Guido A. Guerzoni

From roosters to cocks : Italian Renaissance fowl and sexuality / Allen J. Grieco

"The spirit is ready, but the flesh is tired" : erotic objects and marriage in early modern Italy / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim

Ritual eroticism and sociability. Public display of affection : the making of marriage in the Venetian courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545) / Cecilia Cristellon

Mail humour and male sociability : sexual innuendo in the epistolary domain of Franceso II Gonzaga / Molly Bourne

Unlocking the gates of chastity : music and the erotic in the domestic sphere in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy / Flora Dennis

Courtesan culture : manhood, honour, and sociability / Tessa Storey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754662143

0754662144

OCLC:

458583656

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