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

• Autore: Rocke Michael
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996; ©1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/62/0945/51
• Soggetto topico: Male homosexuality - Italy - Florence - History; Sodomy - Italy - Florence - History; Gay men - Italy - Florence - History; Renaissance - Italy - Florence; Homophobia - Italy - Florence - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--State University of New York at Binghamton).
• 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Forbidden friendships
• ISBN: 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.: 9910449950403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the history of sexuality.