Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence

Michael Rocke

384 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging reflective slow-paced
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The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." Indeed, in the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the tim...

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