Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Of Birds, Figs, and Sexual Identity in the Renaissance, or The Marescalco's Boy Bride -- 2 Playing with the Devil: The Pleasures and Dangers of Sex and Play -- 3 The Abbot's Concubine: Renaissance Lies, Literature, and Power -- 4 Brunelleschi's First Masterpiece, or Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, Masculine Spaces, and Identity in Renaissance Florence -- 5 Machiavelli in Love: The Self-Presentation of an Aging Lover -- 6 Death and Resurrection and the Regime of Virtù, or Of Princes, Lovers, and Prickly Pears -- Afterword. How Machiavelli Put the Devil Back in Hell -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z. |