By Gary P Cestaro
Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and picture, medieval to fashionable. The volume's chronological association displays its purpose to outline a queer culture in Italian tradition. whereas absolutely cognizant of the theoretical hazards inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the members to this quantity proportion an curiosity in probing the multi-form dynamics of sexual wishes in Italian texts in the course of the centuries. the amount goals to not advertise the flawed proposal of a unmarried homosexuality via heritage. particularly, those essays jointly disappointed and undo the both inaccurate assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality via time through uncovering a number of the, complicated workings of hope in texts from all classes. just a little sarcastically, one of those queer canon effects. those essays open a much-needed serious area within the Italian culture in which fastened definitions of sexual identification cave in. Queer Italia is the 1st and simply paintings of its style in Italian feedback. As such, it is going to be of curiosity to a large viewers of Italianists, medieval to trendy, and queer cultural theorists.
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1a. Strange, odd, peculiar, eccentric, in appearance or character. Also of questionable character, suspicious, dubious. 1b. Of a person (usu. a man): homosexual . . ”8 Both senses of queer come into play here: the latter most clearly in regard to Pope Leo’s posthumous reputation and the former insofar as historical criticism has evaded, often blatantly, the patent evidence of the Renaissance fascination with the erotic. I mean to examine how the Renaissance interpretive tradition has frequently displayed its own queer taxonomy at the same time that it has attempted to draw a veil across the queer objects of its critical disdain.
But there were other forces at work in the formation of Lorenzo’s and Clarice’s children, and in Giovanni’s case, as Roscoe piquantly has it, BIBBIENA’S CLOSET 41 “his youthful mind . . 24 When, in 1489, Giovanni was appointed cardinal at the age of 13 by Pope Innocent VIII, he was compelled (at least temporarily) to terminate his humanistic studies in order to pursue canon law at the University of Pisa, and it was Bibbiena who accompanied him there to manage his household. From that point onward, Bibbiena’s role in the fortunes of his younger charge, and of the Medici in general, was fixed.
Paul of Hungary, Summa de penitentia, pp. 207–08. , p. 210. Recent church legislation had expressed concern over homosexual activity among the clergy. See, especially, canon 11 of the Third Lateran Council (1179): “Let all who are found guilty of that unnatural vice for which the wrath of God came down upon the sons of disobedience and destroyed the five cities with fire, if they are clerics be expelled from the clergy or confined in monasteries to do penance; if they are laymen they are to incur excommunication and be completely separated from the society of the faithful” in: Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed.
