Jacqueline Murray is Professor of History at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on premodern sexuality, at the intersections of ecclesiastical and popular lay culture, and she is currently examining the premodern experience of masculinity and male embodiment. Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, working at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, with a focus on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.

• Chapter 1: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: Themes and Approaches in Recent Scholarship; Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder; Chapter 2: The Lord Who Rejected Love, or the Griselda Story (X, 10) Reconsidered Yet Again; Chapter 3: Sexual Violence in the Sienese State Before and After the Fall of the Republic; Chapter 4: In the Neighbourhood: Residence, Community, and the Sex Trade in Early Modern Bologna; Chapter 5: Though Popes Said Don’t, Some People Did: Adulteresses in Catholic Reformation Rome; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender; Chapter 6: "Bodily Things" and Brides of Christ: The Case of the Early Seventeenth-century "Lesbian Nun" Benedetta Carlini; Chapter 7: In Bed with Ludovico Santa Croce (1557); Chapter 8; Aesthetics, Dress, and Militant Masculinity in Castiglione's Courtier; Chapter 9: The Sausage Wars: Or How the Sausage and Carne Battled for Gastronomic and Social Prestige in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image; Chapter 10: Gianantonio Bazzi, Called "Il Sodoma": Homosexuality in Art, Life, and History; Chapter 11: Vagina Dialogues: Piccolomini’s Raffaella and Aretino’s Ragionamenti; Chapter 12: Giovan Battista della Porta's Erotomanic Art of Recollection; Chapter 13: "O mie arti fallaci": Tasso's Saintly Women in the Liberata and Conquistata

Jacqueline Murray is Professor of History at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on premodern sexuality, at the intersections of ecclesiastical and popular lay culture, and she is currently examining the premodern experience of masculinity and male embodiment. Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, working at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, with a focus on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.

• Chapter 1: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: Themes and Approaches in Recent Scholarship; Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder; Chapter 2: The Lord Who Rejected Love, or the Griselda Story (X, 10) Reconsidered Yet Again; Chapter 3: Sexual Violence in the Sienese State Before and After the Fall of the Republic; Chapter 4: In the Neighbourhood: Residence, Community, and the Sex Trade in Early Modern Bologna; Chapter 5: Though Popes Said Don’t, Some People Did: Adulteresses in Catholic Reformation Rome; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender; Chapter 6: "Bodily Things" and Brides of Christ: The Case of the Early Seventeenth-century "Lesbian Nun" Benedetta Carlini; Chapter 7: In Bed with Ludovico Santa Croce (1557); Chapter 8; Aesthetics, Dress, and Militant Masculinity in Castiglione's Courtier; Chapter 9: The Sausage Wars: Or How the Sausage and Carne Battled for Gastronomic and Social Prestige in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image; Chapter 10: Gianantonio Bazzi, Called "Il Sodoma": Homosexuality in Art, Life, and History; Chapter 11: Vagina Dialogues: Piccolomini’s Raffaella and Aretino’s Ragionamenti; Chapter 12: Giovan Battista della Porta's Erotomanic Art of Recollection; Chapter 13: "O mie arti fallaci": Tasso's Saintly Women in the Liberata and Conquistata

Jacqueline Murray is Professor of History at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on premodern sexuality, at the intersections of ecclesiastical and popular lay culture, and she is currently examining the premodern experience of masculinity and male embodiment. Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, working at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, with a focus on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.

• Chapter 1: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: Themes and Approaches in Recent Scholarship; Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder; Chapter 2: The Lord Who Rejected Love, or the Griselda Story (X, 10) Reconsidered Yet Again; Chapter 3: Sexual Violence in the Sienese State Before and After the Fall of the Republic; Chapter 4: In the Neighbourhood: Residence, Community, and the Sex Trade in Early Modern Bologna; Chapter 5: Though Popes Said Don’t, Some People Did: Adulteresses in Catholic Reformation Rome; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender; Chapter 6: "Bodily Things" and Brides of Christ: The Case of the Early Seventeenth-century "Lesbian Nun" Benedetta Carlini; Chapter 7: In Bed with Ludovico Santa Croce (1557); Chapter 8; Aesthetics, Dress, and Militant Masculinity in Castiglione's Courtier; Chapter 9: The Sausage Wars: Or How the Sausage and Carne Battled for Gastronomic and Social Prestige in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image; Chapter 10: Gianantonio Bazzi, Called "Il Sodoma": Homosexuality in Art, Life, and History; Chapter 11: Vagina Dialogues: Piccolomini’s Raffaella and Aretino’s Ragionamenti; Chapter 12: Giovan Battista della Porta's Erotomanic Art of Recollection; Chapter 13: "O mie arti fallaci": Tasso's Saintly Women in the Liberata and Conquistata