Same-sex marriage in Renaissance Rome : sexuality, identity, and community in early modern Europe / Gary Ferguson.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.

x, 216 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

A French writer visits : Montaigne's travel journal and a thrice-told tale -- "Our marriages"? Male to male / Like husband and wife -- Marriage rites, analogues, meanings -- Other witnesses, other stories -- Final hours: wills and execution -- Voices on trial: beginning with Battista the boatman -- Saint John at the Latin Gate : Marco Pinto -- Marriage as alibi, as euphemism, as recruitment -- Marriage and community -- Looking forward / looking back : the history of sexuality -- Ghost stories : queer history.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.