Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A SourceBook of Texts, 1470-1650 Book

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Editorial Practice and Using This Handbook
	General Introduction	1
1	Theology	23
	Matteo Bandello, Le novelle (1554): "The Tale of Porcellio," an Unrepentant Sodomite	35
	Andrea Alciato, Emblemata, Emblem 4 (Ganymede), 1531; Emblem 80 ("Those Sinning against Nature"), 1546; Johannes Thuilius, Commentary on Emblem 80 (1621)	43
	Jean Calvin, Commentaries on Genesis 19:4-25, Romans 1:24-31, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (c. 1550)	50
	St. Peter Canisius, A Sum of Christian Doctrine (1555): Sins of Lust and Sodomy	56
	Henri Estienne, Apology for Herodotus (1566): Sodomy and Sins against Nature	59
	Andrew Willet, Commentaries on Leviticus 18:22, 20:13 (1631), Romans 1:26-27 (1611)	64
	Thomas Wilson, Commentary on Romans 1:26-17, 31 (1614)	68
	Thomas Beard, The Theater of God's Judgements (1597): "Effeminate Persons, Sodomites, and Other Suchlike Monsters"	70
2	Law	75
	English Sodomy Statutes: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I	86
	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Travel Journal (written 1580-81): Reports of Married Sodomites and a Woman Who Married a Woman	90
	Franz Hogenberg, Scenes of the Religious and Civil Wars: Public Executions of Sodomites, 1578	91
	Sir Edward Coke, A Book of Entries (1614), Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1644, written decades earlier), Twelfth Part of the Reports (1656, written decades earlier): Sodomy Laws and Prosecutions	94
	The Stafford Scandal, 1607, The Arraignment, Judgment, Confession, and Execution of Humphrey Stafford, Gentleman (1607): Sodomy Trial	99
	The Castlehaven Scandal, 1630-31, The Trial of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a Rape and Sodomy (1719), The Execution of Fitzpatrick and Broadway (1719), both derived from ms. accounts c. 1631: Trials and Executions of the Earl of Castlehaven and Two Male Servants	101
	Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon: Prosecution for "Lewd Behavior Each with Other upon a Bed" (1648)	113
3	Medicine	115
	Pseudo-Aristotle, Problems, 4.26 (before c. 500): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus	122
	Caelius Aurelianus, On Chronic Diseases, 4.9 (c.200/400): Effeminate Men or Pathics	124
	Avicenna (Ibn Sina), The Canon of Medicine (c. 1010): Sexually Penetrated Men, Hermaphrodites, and Conditions of Male and Female Sexual Pleasure	127
	Pietro d'Abano, Commentary on the Problems of Aristotle, 4.26 (c. 1310): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus	130
	Rodrigo de Castro, On the Universal Medical Art of Women (1603): Feminine Genitals and Tribadism	141
	Andre du Laurens, Anatomical Account of the Human Body (1593): Feminine Genitals	143
	Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Differences of Male and Female Genitals, Sexual Pleasure, Changes of Sex, Tribadism, and Intermediate Sex	144
	John Marten, A Treatise of All the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease (1704): Contagion through Anal and Oral Intercourse between Males	154
4	Astrology	157
	Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (c. 150): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars	165
	Julius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis (c. 340): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars	170
	Leone Ebreo, Dialogues on Love (written c. 1502): Astral Influences on Feminine and Masculine Love, and on Males Who Love Males Both "Passively" and " Actively"	175
5	Physiognomics	179
	Bartolommeo della Rocca (Cocles), Rebirth of Chiromancy and Physiognomy (1504): Sings of Nefarious Lust on Female Hands; Thomas Hill, The Contemplation of Mankind (1571): Bodily Signs of Gender Affiliation and the Cinaedus	184
	Giambattista della Porta, On Human Physiognomy (1586, 1599): Physical Signs for Detecting a Cinaedus; How Cinaedus Can Become Tough	191
	Giovanni Antonio Magini (?), Metoposcopy (written c. 1600): Sex Differences and Sodomy Revealed in Foreheads	195
6	Encyclopedias and Reference Works	201
	Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, Historical Miscellany (1531): Origins of Masculine Love; Unbelievable Lusts of the Etruscans	207
	Theodor Zwinger, The Theater of Human Life (1565): Exemplars of Masculine Love and Tribades	209
7	Prodigious Monstrosities	225
	Jakob Ruff, The Generation and Birth of Man (1544): Monstrous Births, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy	231
	Ambroise Pare, Of Monsters and Prodigies (1573, 1575): Monsters, Feminine Genitals, Tribades, Changes of Sex, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy	234
	Claude de Tesserant, Fouteen Prodigious Accounts (c. 1568): Monsters, Hermaphrodites, Sex Changes, Sex between Males, Nero, Elagabalus	240
	Joseph Hall, Another World Yet the Same (1605): the Isle of Hermaphrodites	247
	Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Monsters and Hermaphrodites	248
8	Love and Friendship	251
	Marsilio Ficino, On Love (written 1469): Love between Males, between Males and Female	260
	Angelo Poliziano, The Fable of Orpheus (written c. 1480): Orphic Origins of Masculine Love	271
	Agnolo Firenzuola, Dialogue on the Beauty of Women (written 1541): Love between Females, between Males, between Males and Females	274
	Laudomia Forteguerri, Sonnets (written c. 1535-1540): Love Sonnets between Females	279
	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (1580): On Friendship	284
	Anonymous (ms. c. 1586), "As Phoebus In His Sphere's Height": Love between Females	295
	Brantome, or Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (written c. 1585): Sodomy, Tribades, Lesbians, and the Scandal of Sodomy	298
	Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): Tyrannies of Lust and Sodomy; Astrological and Other Causes of Sex Differences	310
9	The Sapphic Renaissance	317
	Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Chronicles of Poets Both Greek and Roman (1545): Sappho	321
	Andre Thevet, True Portraits and Lives of Illustrious Men (1584): Life of Sappho, the Lesbian Poetess	325
	Pontus de Tyard, "Elegy for One Woman Enamored with Another" (1573)	329
	Pierre de Ronsard, Sapphic Elegy with Envoy (1565), Sapphic Elegy (ms., c. 1565, Ronsard?)	331
	John Donne, "Sappho to Philaenis" (written c. 1600)	336
	Tanguy Le Fevre, The Greek Poets (1664): Sappho	339
10	Erotica	343
	Pietro Aretino, The Dialogues (1534, 1536): Sex Games in a Nunnery; Husbands of Monks and Priests	355
	Antonio Rocco, The Boy Alcibiades at School (1651?, written before 1630): Teaching Masculine Love; Its Rationales and Pleasures	365
	Endnotes	373
	Permissions	421
	Index of Anthologized Authors and Headings	423