Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance science of procreation : Equicola's seasons of desire / Anthony Colantuono.

Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010.

xvii, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola, and the libidinal seasons. Proemium. The libido in winter: Bellini's Feast of the gods -- The libido in spring: Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne -- The libido in summer: Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians -- The libido in autumn: Titian's Feast of Venus -- Interpreting the Camerino: the bacchanals as procreative pedagogy -- Colonna's Poliphilus' The science and season of sexual performance. Proemium. Duke Gibaldo's dysfunction: Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love -- Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic: an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia -- Poliphilus's wet dream -- A Venus in the bedroom -- Coloring the roses: Colonna, Titian, and the "third Venus" -- A sacred/profane love: the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.