Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Religion, Heavenly Art, Earthly Bodies
7. 1 Bathing and Bonding: Sensual Male Imagery in Italian Paintings of Baptism 23
8. 2 Blasphemous or Beautiful? Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint John the Baptist: Holy Masculinity and Its Ambiguities ca. 1500 52
9. 3 Sharing a Bed with Dominic: Celibacy and Masculinity in the Cult of Saint Vincent Ferrer 77
10. 4 The Body of Christ: Suffering and Desire in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s De Venere et Cupidine Expellendis 97
11. Part Two: Women and Men: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Desire
12. 5 A Dio Zerbini a Dio, a Dio Narcisi: Satirizing Effeminacy in Margherita Costa’s Florentine Works (1638–1641) 117
13. 6 Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy in the Sixteenth Century: Mythological Donna con Donna Images from Fontainebleau and Northern Italy 141
14. Part Three: Knowledge and Emotions: Forbidden and Required
15. 7 Wounded Histories on the Stages of Old and New Worlds: Vivaldi’s Motezuma and the Cries of Conquest 171
16. 8 Male Courtly Feeling and the Historical Performativity of Shyness in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 199
17. 9 Latin Epigrams and Early Modern Sexual Knowledge: Or, How Jonson Read His Martial 221
18. Contributors 245
19. Index 249