The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance Book

The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance, The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

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The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Written by author Valeria Finucci
Published by Duke University Press, 2/26/2003
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and

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Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1

Ch. 1 The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37

Ch. 2 The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79

Ch. 3 Performance Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119

Ch. 4 The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159

Ch. 5 Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189

Ch. 6 The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225

Selected Bibliography 281

Index 307

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period	1
Ch. 1	The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births	37
Ch. 2	The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola	79
Ch. 3	Performance Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata	119
Ch. 4	The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso	159
Ch. 5	Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria	189
Ch. 6	The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato	225
	Selected Bibliography	281
	Index	307