Benvenuto Cellini
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Benvenuto Cellini

Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy

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eBook - PDF

Benvenuto Cellini

Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy

About this book

Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier; an artist who worked in marble, bronze, and gold; and a writer and poet. Using the methodologies of New Historicism, social history, and gender and sexuality studies, this book places Cellini and his cultural production in the context of contemporary discourses about sexuality, law, magic, masculinity, and honor. In his life and literary oeuvre, the notorious artist, rogue, and sodomite aligned himself with the transgressive and oppositional voices of his day.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Foreword
  10. Illustrations i-16 onpages xvii-xxxi
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Benvenuto Cellini, Life and Works
  13. 2. Criminal Acts and Literary Practice
  14. 3. Cellini's Poetics I: The Rime
  15. 4 Cellini's Poetics II: The Vita
  16. 5. Honor and Manliness
  17. Conclusion
  18. Appendix 1: Unpublished Archival Document
  19. Appendix 2: Unedited Sonnets Attributed to Cellini
  20. Appendix 3: Published Documents
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index