Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance Hardcover - 2006
by Guido Ruggiero
From the rear cover
Machiavelli in Love introduces an exciting new concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's study counters the consensus among historians and literary critics that there was little sense of individual identity and almost no sense of sexual identity before the modern period.
"Ruggiero's intent in Machiavelli in Love is much more than a recasting of Machiavelli: it is to examine self and identity in the Renaissance . . . One can applaud his insertion of the playful into our sense of the Renaissance."--Renaissance Quarterly
"One of the book's achievements is that it shows the extent to which the literature of high culture had deep roots in everyday experience. Few will ever again doubt the importance of sex in creating Renaissance identity."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This provocative and complicated work about sex and self-fashioning sits at the nexus of historical and literary studies . . . It challenges readers to rethink both traditional literary interpretations and historical understanding."--Choice
Guido Ruggiero is professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. He is coeditor and cotranslator of Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance, also published by Johns Hopkins, and author of several books, including Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance and The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime, and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice.
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Machiavelli in Love introduces an exciting new concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's study counters the consensus among historians and literary critics that there was little sense of individual identity and almost no sense of sexual identity before the modern period.
Ruggiero's intent in Machiavelli in Love is much more than a recasting of Machiavelli: it is to examine self and identity in the Renaissance . . . One can applaud his insertion of the playful into our sense of the Renaissance.--Renaissance Quarterly
One of the book's achievements is that it shows the extent to which the literature of high culture had deep roots in everyday experience. Few will ever again doubt the importance of sex in creating Renaissance identity.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
This provocative and complicated work about sex and self-fashioning sits at the nexus of historical and literary studies . . . It challenges readers to rethink both traditional literary interpretations and historical understanding.--Choice
Guido Ruggiero is professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. He is coeditor and cotranslator of Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance, also published by Johns Hopkins, and author of several books, including Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance and The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime, and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice.
--Edward Muir, Northwestern University, author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice and Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance "Annali d' Italianistica"Details
- Title Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance
- Author Guido Ruggiero
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date December 20, 2006
- ISBN 9780801885167 / 0801885167
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.3 x 0.93 in (23.72 x 16.00 x 2.36 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Sex in literature, Renaissance - Italy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006015555
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.709
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 145
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