The renaissance of marriage in fifteenth-century Italy / Anthony F. D'Elia.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2004.

viii, 262 pages ; 25 cm.

Introduction -- Marriage and wisdom form antiquity to the renaissance -- The revieal of the ancient Epithalanium in courtly weddings -- Weddings as propaganda : rhetoric and court culture -- The culture of marriage and sex in Italian courts -- Humanist criticisms of celibacy adn the reformation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.