Renaissance History

Bray, Alan

Homosexuality in Renaissance England. London: Gay Men's Press, 1982.

Brown, Judith C.

Immodest Acts: the Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Cady, Joseph

"'Masculine love', Renaissance writing, and the 'new invention' of homosexuality", Journal of Homosexuality, 23 (1992): 9-40.

Canosa, Romano

Storia di una grande paura: La sodomia a Firenze e a Venezia nel Quattrocento. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1991.

Dall'Orto, Giovanni

Leggere omosessuale: bibliografia. Torino: Gruppo Abele, 1984.

Dall'Orto, Giovanni

"La fenice di Sodoma: Essere omosessuale nell'Italia del Rinascimento", in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 61-83.

Dall'Orto, Giovanni

"`Socratic love' as a disguise for same-sex love in the Italian Renaissance", Journal of Homosexuality, 16 (1988), pp. 33-65. Reprinted in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 33-65.

Gerard, Kent and Hekma, Gert (eds)

The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989.

Goldberg, Jonathan, ed.

Queering the Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. Reprints important essays by Alan Bray and Valerie Traub; essays on Erasmus, John Bale, Nicholas Udall, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher.

Goldberg, Jonathan (ed.)

Reclaiming Sodom. New York and London: Routledge, 1994.

Goldberg, Jonathan

Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Gundesheimer, Werner

"Crime and Punishment in Ferrara", in L. Martines, (ed.), Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities 1200-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Reviews eight executions for sodomy in Ferrara from 1440-1500.

Labalme, Patricia H.

"Sodomy and Venetian justice in the Renaissance", Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 52 (1984): 217-55.

Norton, Rictor

"The Passions of Michelangelo", in Leyland, Gay Roots, Vol. 2 (1993), 147-52.

Pavan, Elisabeth

"Police des moeurs, société et politique à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age", Revue historique, 104 (1980): 241-88.

Poirier, Guy

L'homosexualité dans l'imaginaire de la Renaissance. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1996.

Rocke, Michael J.

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rocke, Michael J.

"Sodomites in fifteenth-century Tuscany: The views of Bernardino of Siena", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 7þ31.

Ruggiero, Guido

The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Ruggiero, Guido

"Sexual criminality in the early Renaissance: Venice, 1338-1358", Journal of Social History, 8 (1975), pp. 18-37. Two sodomites were burned in 1357. A large group of sodomites was discovered in 1406-7, and 16 or 17 men were burned.

Saslow, James M.

Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986.

Saslow, James M.

"Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, identity, and artistic expression", in Duberman et al., Hidden from History (1989), pp. 90-105.

Saslow, James

"`A veil of ice between my heart and the fire': Michelangelo's sexual identity and early modern constructs of homosexuality", Genders, 2 (July 1988), pp. 77-90.

Saslow, James

"The tenderest lover: Saint Sebastian in Renaissance painting", Gai Saber, Spring 1977.

Schleiner, Winifried

"'That matter which ought not to be heard of': Homophobic slurs in Renaissance cultural politics", Journal of Homosexuality, 26.4 (1994): 41-75.

Smith, Bruce. R.

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics. University of Chicago Press, 1998

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