Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy
By: edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
Series: Visual culture in early modernity; Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780754662143
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hunting for birds in the Italian Renaissance / Guido Ruggiero; title: Visual testimony and verbal games; title: Satyrs and sausages : erotic strategies and the print market in cinquecento Italy / Sara F. Matthews-Grieco; title: The erotic fantasies of a model clerk : amateur pornography at the beginning of the cinquecento / Guido A. Guerzoni; title: From roosters to cocks : Italian Renaissance fowl and sexuality / Allen J. Grieco; title: "The spirit is ready, but the flesh is tired" : erotic objects and marriage in early modern Italy / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim; title: Ritual eroticism and sociability; title: Public display of affection : the making of marriage in the Venetian courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545) / Cecilia Cristellon; title: Mail humour and male sociability : sexual innuendo in the epistolary domain of Franceso II Gonzaga / Molly Bourne; title: Unlocking the gates of chastity : music and the erotic in the domestic sphere in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy / Flora Dennis; title: Courtesan culture : manhood, honour, and sociability / Tessa Storey.