Forbidden Friendships
Subtitle: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
By: Michael Rocke.
Series: Studies in the history of sexuality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Male homosexuality -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Sodomy -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Gay men -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Sex customs -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Homophobia -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Boys and men -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- History.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--State University of New York at Binghamton).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Florence and Sodomy
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: Making Problems: Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century
pagenum: 19; label: 2
title: The Officers of the Night
pagenum: 45; label: 3
title: "He Keeps Him Like a Woman": Age and Gender in the Social Organization of Sodomy
pagenum: 87; label: 4
title: Social Profiles
pagenum: 112; label: 5
title: "Great Love and Good Brotherhood": Sodomy and Male Sociability
pagenum: 148; label: 6
title: Politics and Sodomy in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Abolition of the Night Officers
pagenum: 195; label: Epilogue
title: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century
pagenum: 227; label: Appendix A
title: Penalties Levied
pagenum: 237; label: Appendix B
title: Statistical Tables
pagenum: 243