Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / Michael Rocke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocke, Michael, author.

Series:

Studies in the history of sexuality.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in the history of sexuality

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male homosexuality--Italy--Florence--History.

Male homosexuality.

Gay men--Italy--Florence--History.

Gay men.

Sodomy--Italy--Florence--History.

Sodomy.

Homophobia--Italy--Florence--History.

Homophobia.

Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study takes into account the 70-year history of "The Office of the Night", created in 1432 to police sexual behaviour in Florence. It shows a culture which accepted sodomy and charts the changes in public attitudes and private practises when acceptance turned to repression.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Florence and Sodomy; PART I; 1: Making Problems: Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century; Traditional Controls; Agitation for Reform, 1400-1432; The Attack from the Pulpit: Bernardino of Siena; 2: The Officers of the Night; The Institution; Politics and Sodomy in the 1430's; The Turning Point in the Late 1450's; The Magistrates at Work; Community Controls; PART II; 3: "He Keeps Him Like a Woman": Age and Gender in the Social Organization of Sodomy

Sexual Roles and Behavior Boys and Men; Becoming a Man; 4: Social Profiles; Young and Old; Bachelors and Husbands; Provenance and Residence; Social Composition; 5: "Great Love and Good Brotherhood": Sodomy and Male Sociability; Encounters; The Character of Sodomitical Relations; Family Complicity; Friends, Networks, Sodalities; PART III; 6: Politics and Sodomy in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Abolition of the Night Officers; The Lorenzan Age; The Coming Scourge; The Spirit and the Flesh: Sodomy in Savonarolan Florence; The Suppression of the Office of the Night

Epilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century Appendix A: Penalties Levied; Appendix B: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771312-2

0-19-028412-9

1-280-47088-7

0-19-802343-X

0-19-535268-8

1-60256-304-7

OCLC:

475956055