Chapter 1 Introduction: Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film

Chapter 2 The Dead Sea of Sodomy: Giordano da Pisa on Men Who Have Sex With Men

Chapter 3 Bibbiena’s Closet: Interpretation and the Sexual Culture of a Renaissance Papal Court

Chapter 4 Knots of Desire: Female Homoeroticism in Orlando furioso 25

Chapter 5 ACTing UP in the Renaissance:The Case of Benvenuto Cellini

Chapter 6 “Nature is a Mother Most Sweet”: Homosexuality in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italian Libertinism

Chapter 8 Beauty and the Beast: Lesbians in Literature and Sexual Science from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 9 Desire and Disavowal in Liliana Cavani’s “German Trilogy”

Chapter 10 Adapting to Heterocentricity: The Film Versions of Umberto Saba’s Ernesto and Giorgio Bassani’s The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

Chapter 11 Reluctantly Queer: In Search of the Homoerotic Novel in Twentieth-Century Italian Fiction

Chapter 12 Secret Wounds:The Bodies of Fascism in Giorgio Bassani’s Dietro la porta

Chapter 13 Transitive Gender and Queer Performance in the Novels of Mario Mieli and Vittorio Pescatori