04256nam 2200757 450 991078327060332120230421042438.00-19-771312-20-19-028412-91-280-47088-70-19-802343-X0-19-535268-81-60256-304-7(CKB)1000000000028898(EBL)1591262(SSID)ssj0000081299(PQKBManifestationID)11120997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081299(PQKBWorkID)10114636(PQKB)11322561(Au-PeEL)EBL4701920(CaPaEBR)ebr11273336(OCoLC)475956055(Au-PeEL)EBL1591262(OCoLC)908078556(MiAaPQ)EBC4701920(EXLCZ)99100000000002889820161012h19961996 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrForbidden friendships homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence /Michael RockeNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1996.©19961 online resource (536 p.)Studies in the History of SexualityOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--State University of New York at Binghamton).0-19-506975-7 0-19-512292-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Florence and Sodomy; PART I; 1: Making Problems: Preoccupations and Controversy over Sodomy in the Early Fifteenth Century; Traditional Controls; Agitation for Reform, 1400-1432; The Attack from the Pulpit: Bernardino of Siena; 2: The Officers of the Night; The Institution; Politics and Sodomy in the 1430's; The Turning Point in the Late 1450's; The Magistrates at Work; Community Controls; PART II; 3: "He Keeps Him Like a Woman": Age and Gender in the Social Organization of SodomySexual Roles and Behavior Boys and Men; Becoming a Man; 4: Social Profiles; Young and Old; Bachelors and Husbands; Provenance and Residence; Social Composition; 5: "Great Love and Good Brotherhood": Sodomy and Male Sociability; Encounters; The Character of Sodomitical Relations; Family Complicity; Friends, Networks, Sodalities; PART III; 6: Politics and Sodomy in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Abolition of the Night Officers; The Lorenzan Age; The Coming Scourge; The Spirit and the Flesh: Sodomy in Savonarolan Florence; The Suppression of the Office of the NightEpilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century Appendix A: Penalties Levied; Appendix B: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index""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 experienceStudies in the history of sexuality.Male homosexualityItalyFlorenceHistorySodomyItalyFlorenceHistoryGay menItalyFlorenceHistoryRenaissanceItalyFlorenceHomophobiaItalyFlorenceHistoryMale homosexualityHistory.SodomyHistory.Gay menHistory.RenaissanceHomophobiaHistory.306.76/62/0945/51Rocke Michael280515MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783270603321Forbidden friendships3721721UNINA