Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy

by Timothy Mccall

Looking beyond the marble elegance of Michelangelo's David, the pugnacious, passionate, and--crucially--important story of Renaissance manhood.

Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects, and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts, seduced mistresses, flaunted splendor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789147859
• ISBN13: 9781789147858
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"