Forbidden Friendships : Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence.
This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise ... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies.--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the l...
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Florence and Sodomy; 1. Making Problems: Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century; 2. The Officers of the Night; 3. "He Keeps Him Like a Woman": Age and Gender in the Social Organization of Sodomy; 4. Social Profiles; 5. "Great Love and Good Brotherhood": Sodomy and Male Sociability; 6. Politics and Sodomy in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Abolition of the Night Officers; Epilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century; Appendix A: Penalties Levied.