Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Staging the Body -- 1. The Virgin Cure Manual Exams and Early Modern Surgeons -- 2. The Aesthetic Cure Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery -- 3. The Comfort Cure Managing Pain and Catarrh at the Spa -- 4. The Sexual Cure Searching for a Viagra in the New World -- Epilogue Unwrapping the Body -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary
Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
FinucciValeria: Valeria Finucci is Professor of Italian and Theater Studies and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACM, viewed April 03 2015)