Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Of Birds, Figs, and Sexual Identity in the Renaissance, or The Marescalco's Boy Bride
  • Playing with the Devil: The Pleasures and Dangers of Sex and Play
  • The Abbot's Concubine: Renaissance Lies, Literature, and Power
  • Brunelleschi's First Masterpiece, or Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, Masculine Spaces, and Identity in Renaissance Florence
  • Machiavelli in Love: The Self-Presentation of an Aging Lover
  • Death and Resurrection and the Regime of Virtù, or Of Princes, Lovers, and Prickly Pears Afterword. How Machiavelli Put the Devil Back in Hell.