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Forbidden Friendships

Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence

by Michael Rocke

1997 371 pages eng

"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--*Martin Duberman, The Advocate* The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth…

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