Jacqueline Murray - Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

The editors would like to thank Vanessa McCarthy who donned two hats for this project, that of an author and that of editorial associate. Her scholarly knowledge and administrative expertise contributed significantly to the preparation of this volume, and were grateful for her dedication and expertise.

We would like to thank the editorial team at Routledge for their support and guidance over the course of this project. Laura Pilsworth guided it through its inception and commissioning, while Lydia de Cruz shepherded it through the final stages of preparation and production, assisted by Morwenna Scott. The University of Guelph and the University of Toronto provide generous support for the research activities of Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra respectively.

Thanks as well to the congenial group of scholars whose work is collected here. While editing collections is sometimes likened to herding cats, these colleagues were responsive, generous, and patient. Above all, they were enthusiastic about the opportunity to contribute to a collection which could serve as a gift to a friend and colleague, Konrad Eisenbichler, who has himself been the soul of generosity.

We are honored to have worked with you all.

Jacqueline Murray
Nicholas Terpstra

Lopera poetica di Virginia Martini Salvi (Siena, c. 1510 Roma, post 1571) . Siena: Accademia degli Intronati di Siena, 2012.

The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.

Cecchi, Giovan Maria. The Horned Owl (LAssiuolo) . Translated with an introduction and notes by Konrad Eisenbichler. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. 2nd ed. revised edition published in Renaissance Comedy: The Italian Masters . Volume 2. Edited with introduction by Donald Beecher, 22188. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Firenzuola, Agnolo. On the Beauty of Women . Translated with introduction and notes by Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Savonarola, Girolamo. A Guide to Righteous Living and Other Works . Translated and introduced by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003.

Love and Death in the Renaissance . Edited by K.R. Bartlett, Konrad Eisenbichler, and Janice Liedl. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1991.

Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West . Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 11501650 . Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2002.

The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena . Edited and with an introduction by Konrad Eisenbichler. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

The Religious Poetry of Michelangelo: The Mystical Sublimation. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Rforme 23, no. 1 (1987): 12336. Reprinted in Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English . Edited by William E. Wallace. Volume 5, 12336. New York: Garland, 1995.

Agnolo Bronzinos Portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Rforme 24, no. 1 (1988): 2133.

Political Posturing in Some Triumphs of Love in Quattrocento Florence. In Petrarchs Triumphs: Allegory and Spectacle . Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and A.A. Iannucci, 36981. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1990.

La carne e lo spirito: Lamore proibito di Michelangelo. In Annali della Facolt di Lettere e Filosofia (Universit di Siena), Volume 11, 35970. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1990. Published contemporaneously in Antioco malato: Forbidden Loves from Antiquity to Rossini , 35970. Firenze: Olschki, 1990.

Il trattato di Girolamo Savonarola sulla vita viduale. In Studi savonaroliani: Verso il V centenario . Edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini, 26772. Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1996.

Prima opera a stampa di Savonarola: I consigli per le vedove. Citt di vita 53, vol. 23 (1998): 16168. Published contemporaneously in Savonarola rivisitato (14981998) . Edited by M.G. Rosito, 6572. Firenze: Edizioni Citt di Vita, 1998.

Laudomia Forteguerri Loves Margaret of Austria. In Same-Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages . Edited by Francesca Canad Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn, 277304. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Savonarola e il problema delle vedove nel suo contesto sociale. In Una citt e il suo profeta: Firenze di fronte al Savonarola . Edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini, 26371. Firenze: SISMEL, 2001.

Poetesse senesi a met Cinquecento: tra politica e passione. Studi rinascimentali: Rivista internazionale di letteratura italiana 1 (2003): 95102. Published contemporaneously in Rinascimento e Rinascimenti: Storia, lingua, cultura e periodizzazioni , 95102. Salerno: Universit di Salerno, 2004.

Un chant lhonneur de la France : Womens Voices at the End of the Republic of Siena. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Rforme 27, vol. 2 (2003): 8799.

At Marriage End: Girolamo Savonarola and the Question of Widows in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence. In The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy . Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle Baskins, 2335. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Codpiece and One-sex theory. In the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender . Edited by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Jamsheed Choksy, Judith Roof, and Francesca Sautman, 1: 308 and 3: 1087. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2007.

Adolescents and Laudomia Forteguerri. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History . Volume 3: The Early Modern Period, 14001600. Edited by Victoria L. Mondelli and Cherrie A. Gottsleben, 68 and 9495. New York: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Erotic Elements in the Religious Plays of Renaissance Florence. In Worth and Repute in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Barbara Todd . Edited by Kim Kippen and Lori Woods, 43148. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010.

La Tombaide del 1540 e le donne senesi. In Alessandro Piccolomini (Sienne 15081579). la croise des genres et des savoirs . Actes du Colloque International (Paris 2325 septembre 2010). Runis et prsents par Marie-Franoise Pijus, Michel Plaisance, Matteo Residori, 10111. Paris: Universit de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, 2012.

Fils de la louve: Blaise de Monluc et les femmes de Sienne. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Rforme 37, vol. 2 (Spring 2014): 518.

Sex and Marriage in Machiavellis Mandragola : A Close(t) Reading. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Rforme 40, vol. 1 (2017): 1335.

Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra

From the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the Italian Renaissance was approached almost exclusively as a period of learning, elegance, and manners as reflected by the arts and letters of the time. In The Book of the Courtier Castigliones perfect courtier embodied virt and sprezzatura , the two qualities that epitomized Renaissance masculinity. Elite men were celebrated for their bravado, skill, and insouciant nonchalance, whether these were exercised on the fields of battle, the production of art or poetry, or the seduction of women. Castiglione also details the qualities of the ideal court lady, a woman valued for her beauty and affability along with her manners, intellect, and ability to please men. These qualities were appreciated equally in another group of notable women, the courtesans whose beauty and literary accomplishments were acclaimed by poets and artists alike. Thanks in part to the enduring influence of Jackob Burckhardts Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860; English translation 1878), this idealized portrayal of sixteenth-century Italian men and women dominated twentieth-century historiography and shaped how a number of generations understood sex, gender, and sexuality in the Renaissance.