Michael Rocke: 1 book
Forbidden Friendships
Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
"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,...
