Forbidden Friendships Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence

Name: Forbidden Friendships Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9780195122923

ISBN-10: 0195122925

ISBN-13: 9780195122923

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael Rocke

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"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432 The Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.10" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188



Acknowledgments


Introduction Florence and Sodomy



Making Problems. Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century



The Officers of the Night



He Keeps Him like a Woman: Age and Gender in the Social Organization of Sodomy



Social Profiles



Great Love and Good Brotherhood: Sodomy and Male Sociability



Politics and Sodomy in the Late Fifteenth Ceutury: the Medici, Savonarola, and the Abolition of the Night Officers


Epilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century



Penalties Levied



Statistical Tables


Notes


Bibliography


Index