Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Body and Generation in the EarlyModern Period 1
5. Chapter 1 The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction andNongenealogical Births 37
6. Chapter 2 TheMasquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] inMachiavelli’s La mandragola 79
7. Chapter 3 PerformingMaternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, andMonstrous Birth in Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata 119
8. Chapter 4 TheMasquerade ofMasculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso 159
9. Chapter 5 Androgynous Doubling andHermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena’s La calandria 189
10. Chapter 6 TheMasquerade ofManhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225
11. Selected bibliography 281
12. Index 307