Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Strictly Platonic vii
4. Note on Translations Used xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Solving the Problem with Plato 21
7. 2. The Antitheses of Same- Sex Sexuality in Bruni 62
8. 3. Ficino and the Theory of Purging Same- Sex Sexuality 87
9. 4. Ficino and the Practice of Purging Same- Sex Sexuality 117
10. 5. Importing Ficino: Gender Balance in Champier 150
11. 6. Seducing Socrates: The Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais 179
12. 7. The Gates of Germania: Space, Place, and Sexuality in Cornarius 207
13. 8. Fractured Men: Feminism and Neoplatonism in Mid- Sixteenth- Century France 228
14. 9. Orientations: Female- Female and Male- Male Eros in Dialogue 258
15. 10. Reading Sexuality Skeptically in Montaigne 284 Conclusion: Bending Plato 284
16. Appendix: Major Translations of Plato’s Erotic Dialogues 315
17. Acknowledgments 317
18. Notes 321
19. Index 379