Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A SourceBook of Texts, 1470-1650, Vol. 12
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Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance is an unprecedented collection of writings significant for the history of homosexuality and its precursors, drawn from literary, philosophical, religious, and scientific texts published between 1470 and 1650. While the documentary remains of early modern homoeroticism are scattered and fragmentary, and prior studies have focused either on males or on females, this anthology brings together in one convenient volume key readings for both male and female same-sex erotics. The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings, popular encyclopedias, and literature, as well as continental vernacular and Latin sources never before available in English translation. The selections are assembled in ten chapters addressing particular discursive fields - Theology, Law, Medicine, Astrology, Physiognomics, Encyclopedias and Reference Works, Prodigious Monstrosities, Love and Friendship, the Sapphic Renaissance, and Erotica. Each chapter includes a substantial introduction summarizing its topic and its relation to early modern homoeroticism. The volume also poignantly addresses key issues in Renaissance thinking about sexual identity, and newly clarifies central problems and debates in the historiography of same-sex love. With a wealth of primary sources and informative introductions, this remarkable anthology is the essential reference for male and female homoeroticism in the English Renaissance.
IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Editorial Practice and Using This HandbookGeneral Introduction11Theology23Matteo Bandello, Le novelle (1554): "The Tale of Porcellio," an Unrepentant Sodomite35Andrea Alciato, Emblemata, Emblem 4 (Ganymede), 1531; Emblem 80 ("Those Sinning against Nature"), 1546; Johannes Thuilius, Commentary on Emblem 80 (1621)43Jean Calvin, Commentaries on Genesis 19:4-25, Romans 1:24-31, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (c. 1550)50St. Peter Canisius, A Sum of Christian Doctrine (1555): Sins of Lust and Sodomy56Henri Estienne, Apology for Herodotus (1566): Sodomy and Sins against Nature59Andrew Willet, Commentaries on Leviticus 18:22, 20:13 (1631), Romans 1:26-27 (1611)64Thomas Wilson, Commentary on Romans 1:26-17, 31 (1614)68Thomas Beard, The Theater of God's Judgements (1597): "Effeminate Persons, Sodomites, and Other Suchlike Monsters"702Law75English Sodomy Statutes: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I86Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Travel Journal (written 1580-81): Reports of Married Sodomites and a Woman Who Married a Woman90Franz Hogenberg, Scenes of the Religious and Civil Wars: Public Executions of Sodomites, 157891Sir Edward Coke, A Book of Entries (1614), Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1644, written decades earlier), Twelfth Part of the Reports (1656, written decades earlier): Sodomy Laws and Prosecutions94The Stafford Scandal, 1607, The Arraignment, Judgment, Confession, and Execution of Humphrey Stafford, Gentleman (1607): Sodomy Trial99The Castlehaven Scandal, 1630-31, The Trial of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for a Rape and Sodomy (1719), The Execution of Fitzpatrick and Broadway (1719), both derived from ms. accounts c. 1631: Trials and Executions of the Earl of Castlehaven and Two Male Servants101Sarah White Norman and Mary Vincent Hammon: Prosecution for "Lewd Behavior Each with Other upon a Bed" (1648)1133Medicine115Pseudo-Aristotle, Problems, 4.26 (before c. 500): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus122Caelius Aurelianus, On Chronic Diseases, 4.9 (c.200/400): Effeminate Men or Pathics124Avicenna (Ibn Sina), The Canon of Medicine (c. 1010): Sexually Penetrated Men, Hermaphrodites, and Conditions of Male and Female Sexual Pleasure127Pietro d'Abano, Commentary on the Problems of Aristotle, 4.26 (c. 1310): Why Some Males Enjoy Insertive and Others Receptive Coitus130Rodrigo de Castro, On the Universal Medical Art of Women (1603): Feminine Genitals and Tribadism141Andre du Laurens, Anatomical Account of the Human Body (1593): Feminine Genitals143Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Differences of Male and Female Genitals, Sexual Pleasure, Changes of Sex, Tribadism, and Intermediate Sex144John Marten, A Treatise of All the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease (1704): Contagion through Anal and Oral Intercourse between Males1544Astrology157Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (c. 150): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars165Julius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis (c. 340): Homoerotic Inclinations from the Stars170Leone Ebreo, Dialogues on Love (written c. 1502): Astral Influences on Feminine and Masculine Love, and on Males Who Love Males Both "Passively" and " Actively"1755Physiognomics179Bartolommeo della Rocca (Cocles), Rebirth of Chiromancy and Physiognomy (1504): Sings of Nefarious Lust on Female Hands; Thomas Hill, The Contemplation of Mankind (1571): Bodily Signs of Gender Affiliation and the Cinaedus184Giambattista della Porta, On Human Physiognomy (1586, 1599): Physical Signs for Detecting a Cinaedus; How Cinaedus Can Become Tough191Giovanni Antonio Magini (?), Metoposcopy (written c. 1600): Sex Differences and Sodomy Revealed in Foreheads1956Encyclopedias and Reference Works201Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, Historical Miscellany (1531): Origins of Masculine Love; Unbelievable Lusts of the Etruscans207Theodor Zwinger, The Theater of Human Life (1565): Exemplars of Masculine Love and Tribades2097Prodigious Monstrosities225Jakob Ruff, The Generation and Birth of Man (1544): Monstrous Births, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy231Ambroise Pare, Of Monsters and Prodigies (1573, 1575): Monsters, Feminine Genitals, Tribades, Changes of Sex, Hermaphrodites, and Sodomy234Claude de Tesserant, Fouteen Prodigious Accounts (c. 1568): Monsters, Hermaphrodites, Sex Changes, Sex between Males, Nero, Elagabalus240Joseph Hall, Another World Yet the Same (1605): the Isle of Hermaphrodites247Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man (1615): Monsters and Hermaphrodites2488Love and Friendship251Marsilio Ficino, On Love (written 1469): Love between Males, between Males and Female260Angelo Poliziano, The Fable of Orpheus (written c. 1480): Orphic Origins of Masculine Love271Agnolo Firenzuola, Dialogue on the Beauty of Women (written 1541): Love between Females, between Males, between Males and Females274Laudomia Forteguerri, Sonnets (written c. 1535-1540): Love Sonnets between Females279Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (1580): On Friendship284Anonymous (ms. c. 1586), "As Phoebus In His Sphere's Height": Love between Females295Brantome, or Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (written c. 1585): Sodomy, Tribades, Lesbians, and the Scandal of Sodomy298Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): Tyrannies of Lust and Sodomy; Astrological and Other Causes of Sex Differences3109The Sapphic Renaissance317Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Chronicles of Poets Both Greek and Roman (1545): Sappho321Andre Thevet, True Portraits and Lives of Illustrious Men (1584): Life of Sappho, the Lesbian Poetess325Pontus de Tyard, "Elegy for One Woman Enamored with Another" (1573)329Pierre de Ronsard, Sapphic Elegy with Envoy (1565), Sapphic Elegy (ms., c. 1565, Ronsard?)331John Donne, "Sappho to Philaenis" (written c. 1600)336Tanguy Le Fevre, The Greek Poets (1664): Sappho33910Erotica343Pietro Aretino, The Dialogues (1534, 1536): Sex Games in a Nunnery; Husbands of Monks and Priests355Antonio Rocco, The Boy Alcibiades at School (1651?, written before 1630): Teaching Masculine Love; Its Rationales and Pleasures365Endnotes373Permissions421Index of Anthologized Authors and Headings423
