Torquato Tasso composed a poem on Ganymede and Jupiter, but self-censored it because of its underlying theme: homoeroticism.
Tag: Italy
A Polymorphous Activist: Mario Mieli
Activist Mario Mieli plays with language and vocabulary as a stylistic and political tool promoting queer and revolutionary ideas.
The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola
A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.
How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers
Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun
Alessio Ponzio guides us through transformations in Italian sexual culture in this second post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable
Joseph Fischel reflects on histories of sexual ethics, pederasty, and power in this first post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
The Beauty and the Terror
The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.
