Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy

Contents: Introduction: playing with boundaries, Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver; Part I Performing Sexuality: Visual pleasures, sensual sounds: music morality, and sexuality in paintings by Titian, Katherine A. McIver; Galeotto fu la metafora: language and sex in Boccaccio's Decameron, Catherine Baxter; Balla la mona e salt ail babuino: performing obscenity in a musical dialogue, Paul Schleuse. Part II The Erotics of Religion: Sexuality and depictions of the female saint in medieval Tuscany, Catherine Lawless; Leonine lasciviousness and Luther, Anthony Cummings; The Roman Church and sexuality: some notes on prelates and regular clergy in 16th-17th century Italian courts, Flavio Rurale. Part III Images of Country Life, Realistic and Artistic: Tradition and gender transgression: the iconography of the shepherd couple in Venetian pastoral landscape during the 16th century, Christophe Brouard; (El) ge sa bon laorare: female wealth, male competition, musical festivities, and the Venetian Patriciate in Ruzante's Pavan, Linda L. Carroll; Faro quell che mi piacera: fictional women in Vilotta voice resistance, Melanie L. Marshall; Bibliography; Index.