Setting Plato straight
Subtitle: translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance
By: Todd W. Reeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780226307008
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; History and criticism; Translations; Eroticism in literature; Greek literature; Themes, motives; Homosexuality in literature; History
Description: In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Solving the problem with Plato; title: The antitheses of same-sex sexuality in Bruni; title: Ficino and the theory of purging same-sex sexuality; title: Ficino and the practice of purging same-sex sexuality; title: Importing Ficino: gender balance in Champier; title: Seducing Socrates: the Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais; title: The gates of Germania: space, place, and sexuality in Cornarius; title: Fractured men: feminism and neoplatonism in mid-sixteenth-century France; title: Orientations: female-female and male-male eros in dialogue; title: Reading sexuality skeptically in Montaigne; title: Conclusion: bending Plato.