Masculinities and Representation

List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction
James M. Saslow

Part I. Religion, Heavenly Art, Earthly Bodies

1. Bathing and Bonding: Sensual Male Imagery in Italian Paintings of Baptism
Steven F.H. Stowell

2. Blasphemous or Beautiful? Leonardo da Vinci's St John the Baptist, Holy Masculinity, and Its Ambiguities ca. 1500
Anne L. Williams

3. Sharing a Bed with Dominic: Celibacy and Masculinity in the Cult of St. Vincent Ferrer
Laura Ackerman Smoller

4. The Body of Christ: Suffering and Desire in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's De Venere et Cupidine Expellendis
Marco Piana

Part II. Women and Men: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Desire

5. A Dio Zerbini a Dio, a Dio Narcisi: Satirizing Effeminacy in Margherita Costa's Florentine Works (1638-1641)
Sara E. Diaz

6. Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy in the Sixteenth Century: Mythological Donna con Donna Images from Fontainebleau and Northern Italy
Tara White

Part III. Knowledge and Emotions: Forbidden and Required

7. Wounded Histories on the Stages of Old and New Worlds: Vivaldi's Motezuma and the Cries of Conquest
Kate Driscoll

8. Male Courtly Feeling and the Historical Performativity of Shyness in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tiffany Hoffman

9. Latin Epigrams and Early Modern Sexual Knowledge: Or, How Jonson Read His Martial
Ian Frederick Moulton

Index

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• Arte Renascentista
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos de gênero: homens

masculinities; premodern men; sex and gender studies; masculinity studies; Renaissance studies; medieval studies; Leonardo da Vinci; Italian art; Renaissance art; Fontainebleau; Vivaldi; Ben Jonson; literature