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Machiavelli in love; sex, self, and society in the Italian Renaissance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Machiavelli in love; sex, self, and society in the Italian Renaissance.

Ruggiero, Guido.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2007

285 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

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The adulterous affairs of Niccolo Machiavelli and the comedies he wrote about them are actually the subject of only one of the six essays presented here by Ruggiero (history, U. of Miami) in a work that explores sex, self, and society across the Italian Renaissance. Deeply influenced by Michel Foucault's theories on the history of sex, Ruggiero nevertheless uses these essays to ...

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