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"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate
The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432 The Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but an integral part of a normal masculine identity...
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Social life and customs, Boys and men, Gay men, Homosexuality, Male, Renaissance, Nonfiction, Male Homosexuality, Sex customs, Homophobia, Sodomy, History, Renaissance, italy, Florence (italy), history, LGBTQ historyPlaces
Florence, Florence (Italy), ItalyTimes
Renaissance, 14th century, 15th centuryShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
February 9, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
1998, Oxford University Press
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Forbidden friendships: homosexuality and male culture in Renaissance Florence
1996, Oxford University Press
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""In the whole world I believe there are no two sins more abominable than those that prevail among the Florentines," commented Pope Gregory XI in 1376."
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