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.