Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy / edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

xviii, 281 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Hunting for birds in the Italian Renaissance / Guido Ruggiero -- Visual testimony and verbal games -- Satyrs and sausages : erotic strategies and the print market in cinquecento Italy / Sara F. Matthews-Grieco -- The erotic fantasies of a model clerk : amateur pornography at the beginning of the cinquecento / Guido A. Guerzoni -- From roosters to cocks : Italian Renaissance fowl and sexuality / Allen J. Grieco -- "The spirit is ready, but the flesh is tired" : erotic objects and marriage in early modern Italy / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim -- Ritual eroticism and sociability -- Public display of affection : the making of marriage in the Venetian courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545) / Cecilia Cristellon -- Mail humour and male sociability : sexual innuendo in the epistolary domain of Franceso II Gonzaga / Molly Bourne -- Unlocking the gates of chastity : music and the erotic in the domestic sphere in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy / Flora Dennis -- Courtesan culture : manhood, honour, and sociability / Tessa Storey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.