Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance / Todd W. Reeser.
Reeser, Todd W., 1967- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
PA4291 .R44 2016
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Title Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance / Todd W. Reeser.
Author Reeser, Todd W., 1967- author.
ISBN 9780226307145 (electronic bk.)
022630714X (electronic bk.)
9780226307008
022630700X
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 390 pages.)
Item Number 40025629950
Call Number PA4291 .R44 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 488/.04
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-378) and index.
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Preface: Strictly Platonic
Introduction
Solving the problem with Plato
The antitheses of same-sex sexuality in Bruni
Ficino and the theory of purging same-sex sexuality
Ficino and the practice of purging same-sex sexuality
Importing Ficino : gender balance in Champier
Seducing Socrates : the Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais
The gates of Germania : space, place, and sexuality in Cornarius
Fractured men : feminism and neoplatonism in mid-sixteenth-century France
Orientations : female-female and male-male eros in dialogue
Reading sexuality skeptically in Montaigne
Conclusion: Bending Plato
Appendix: Major translations of Plato's erotic dialogues.

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