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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969548103321

Autore

Ruggiero Guido <1944->

Titolo

Machiavelli in love : sex, self, and society in the Italian Renaissance / / Guido Ruggiero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9202-3

1-4356-9215-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

306.70945/09024

Soggetti

Sex customs - Italy - History

Renaissance - Italy

Sex - Social aspects - Italy - History

Sex role - Italy - History

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Ruggiero's challenging reinterpretation of this canonical figure, as well as his unique treatment of other major works of the period, offer new approaches for reading Renaissance literature and new understandings of the way life was lived and perceived during this time.