Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
by Rocke, Michael
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"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 AdvocateThe 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 wascreated specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but anintegral part of a normal masculine identity...
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- Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
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- Rocke, Michael
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- Hardcover
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- First Edition
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- 0195069757
- ISBN 13
- 9780195069754
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- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
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