Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy

Contents: Introduction: hunting for birds in the Italian Renaissance, Guido Ruggiero Part I Visual Testimony and Verbal Games Satyrs and sausages: erotic strategies and the print market in cinquecento Italy, Sara F. Matthews-Grieco The erotic fantasies of a model clerk: amateur pornography at the beginning of the cinquecento, Guido A. Guerzoni From roosters to cocks: Italian Renaissance fowl and sexuality, Allen J. Grieco The spirit is ready but the flesh is tired: erotic objects and marriage in early modern Italy, Marta Ajmar-Wollheim. Part II Ritual Eroticism and Sociability: Public display of affection: the making of marriage in the Venetian courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545), Cecilia Cristellon Mail humour and male sociability: sexual innuendo in the epistolary domain of Francesco II Gonzaga, Molly Bourne Unlocking the gates of chastity: music and the erotic in the domestic sphere in 15th- and 16th-century Italy, Flora Dennis Coutesan culture: manhood, honour and sociability, Tessa Storey Index.