La Madonna in trono fra i Santi Simone e Taddeo di Amadeo Laini da Pistoia

Everyone wanted Madonna’s Erotica to be scandalous, even pornographic. In the midst of the early 1990s culture wars, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family va...

Abstract The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that “Florenzer” in German meant “sodomite.” Indeed, in the late fifteenth century, as many a...