Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
by
Todd W. Reeser
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced...