Forbidden friendships : homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence / / Michael Rocke

• Autore: Rocke Michael
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/62/0945/51
• Soggetto topico: Homosexuality, Male - Italy - Florence - History; Gay men - Italy - Florence - History; Sodomy - Italy - Florence - History; Homophobia - Italy - Florence - History; Renaissance - Italy - Florence
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Sodomy ; Sexual 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 Night ; Epilogue: Change and Continuity in the Policing of Sodomy in the Sixteenth Century Appendix A: Penalties Levied; Appendix B: Statistical Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study takes into account the 70-year history of "The Office of the Night", created in 1432 to police sexual behaviour in Florence. It shows a culture which accepted sodomy and charts the changes in public attitudes and private practises when acceptance turned to repression.
• Titolo autorizzato: Forbidden friendships
• ISBN: 0-19-771312-2; 0-19-028412-9; 1-280-47088-7; 0-19-802343-X; 0-19-535268-8; 1-60256-304-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828750203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the history of sexuality.; Oxford scholarship online.