Benvenuto Cellini Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy

by Gallucci, Margaret A.

• ISBN13: 9781403961075
• ISBN10: 1403961077
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781137122087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier; an artist who worked in marble, bronze, and gold; and a writer and poet. However, in his life and literary oeuvre the notorious artist, rogue, and sodomite aligned himself with the transgressive and oppositional voices of his day. This book uses the methodologies of New Historicism, social history, and gender and sexuality studies to place the artist and his cultural production in the context of contemporary discourses about sexuality, law, magic, masculinity, and honor.

Author Biography

Margaret A. Gallucci has taught at Syracuse University in Florence, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Benvenuto Cellini, Life and Works

Criminal Acts and Literary Practice

Cellini's Poetics I: The Rime

Cellini's Poetics II: The Vita

Honor and Manliness

Conclusion

Unpublished Archival Documents

Unedited Sonnets Attributed to Cellini

Published Documents

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