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First published in 1548, Agnolo Firenzuola's On the Beauty of Women purports to be the record of two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie of Prato, a small city in the vicinity of Florence. Meeting one afternoon in a sun-dren…
First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, t…
These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, aim to extend understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.