List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction James M. Saslow Part I. Religion, Heavenly Art, Earthly Bodies 1. Bathing and Bonding: Sensual Male Imagery in Italian Paintings of Baptism Steven F.H. Stowell 2. Blasphemous or Beautiful? Leonardo da Vinci's St John the Baptist, Holy Masculinity, and Its Ambiguities ca. 1500 Anne L.

Williams 3. Sharing a Bed with Dominic: Celibacy and Masculinity in the Cult of St. Vincent Ferrer Laura Ackerman Smoller 4. The Body of Christ: Suffering and Desire in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's De Venere et Cupidine Expellendis Marco Piana Part II. Women and Men: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Desire 5. A Dio Zerbini a Dio, a Dio Narcisi: Satirizing Effeminacy in Margherita Costa's Florentine Works (1638-1641) Sara E. Díaz 6. Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy in the Sixteenth Century: Mythological Donna con Donna Images from Fontainebleau and Northern Italy Tara White Part III.

Knowledge and Emotions: Forbidden and Required 7. Wounded Histories on the Stages of Old and New Worlds: Vivaldi's Motezuma and the Cries of Conquest Kate Driscoll 8. Male Courtly Feeling and the Historical Performativity of Shyness in A Midsummer Night's Dream Tiffany Hoffman 9. Latin Epigrams and Early Modern Sexual Knowledge: Or, How Jonson Read His Martial Ian Frederick Moulton Index.