Queer italia
Subtitle: same-sex desire in Italian literature and film
By: [edited by] Gary P. Cestaro.
Contributors: Cestaro, Gary P.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Italian and Italian American studies; Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Italian literature -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Italy; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Homosexuality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queer Italia: same-sex desire in Italian literature and film / Gary P. Cestaro; title: The Dead Sea of sodomy: Giordano da Pisa on men who have sex with men / Bernard Schlager; title: Bibbiena's closet: interpretation and the sexual culture of a Renaissance papal court / Michael Wyatt; title: Knots of desire: female homoeroticism in Orlando furioso / Mary-Michelle DeCoste; title: ACTing UP in the Renaissance: the case of Benvenuto Cellini / Margaret A. Gallucci; title: Nature is a mother most sweet: homosexuality in sixteenth and seventeenth century libertinism / Giovanni dall'Orto; title: Tra(ns)vestying gender and genre in Flaminio Scala's Il (finto) marito / Rosalind Kerr; title: Beauty and the beast: lesbians in literature and sexual science from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries / Daniela Danna; title: Desire and disavowal in Liliana Cavani's "German trilogy" / Aine O'Healy; title: Adapting to heterocentricity: the film versions of Umberto Saba's Ernesto and Giorgio Bassani's The gold-rimmed spectacles / William Van Watson; title: Reluctantly queer: in search of the homoerotic novel in twentienth century Italian fiction / Sergio Parussa; title: Secret wounds: the bodies of fascism in Giorgio Bassani's Dietro la porta / Derek Duncan; title: Transitive gender and queer performance in the novels of Mario Mieli and Vittorio Pescatori / Marco Pustianaz.