Introduction

“The Dead Sea of Sodomy”: Giordano da Pisa on Men Who Have Sex with Men--Bernard Schlager

Men on Bottom: Homoeroticism in Cecco Angiolieri--Fabian Alfie

“To an Athlete Dying Young”: Nanni Pegolotti’s Lament for Andrea Ferrantini--Steven Botterill

Bibbiena’s Closet: The Elusive Sexual Politics of the Papal Court of Leo X--Michael Wyatt

“Is Benvenuto Cellini Queer?”--Margaret A. Gallucci

“Knots of Desire”: Female Homoeroticism in Orlando furioso XXV --Mary-Michelle DeCoste

Tra(ns)vestying Gender and Genre in Flaminio Scala’s Il (Finto) Marito --Rosalind Kerr

“La natura e madre dolcissima”: Homosexuality and Italian Libertinism in the 16th and 17th Centuries--Giovanni Dall’Orto

The Gendering of Leopardi and the Feminine Sublime--Margaret Brose

Beauty and the Beast: Lesbian Representation at the Turn of the Century--Daniela Danna

Cavani’s Closet: Desire and Disavowal in the “German Trilogy”--Aine O’Healy

Adapting to Heterocentricity: The Film Versions of Umberto Saba’s Ernesto and Giorgio Bassani’s The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles --William Van Watson

The Other Literature: Homoeroticism and Narrative Codes in Italian Fiction--Sergio Parussa

The Space of Transgression: The Boundaries of Masculinity in the Post-War Novel--Derek Duncan

Queer Politics, Queer Fiction: De-Gendering the Subject in Mieli and Pescatori--Marco Pustianaz

Il bacio della Medusa : Towards the Definition of a Feminist Discursive Space--Rebecca Anne Wright