The body in early modern Italy

Part 1: Petrarchan Corpora. Fetishizing the veil : Petrarch's poetics of rematerialization / Margaret Brose ; The metaphor of the Corpus carcer in Petrarch's Canzoniere and in the lyrical tradition / Luca Marcozzi ; Petrarch's lame leg and the corpus of Cicero : an early crisis of humanism? / Ronald L. Martinez

Part 2: Scientific and philosophical physiologies. Holy autopsies : saintly bodies and medical expertise, 1300-1600 / Katharine Park ; Habeas corpus : demonic bodies in Ficino, Psellus, and Malleus maleficarum / Walter Stephens ; The penis possessed : phallic birds, erotic magic, and sins of the body, ca. 1470-1500 / Anthony Colantuono ; Nymphomaniac matter : the prostitute as metaphor for the body in Italian Renaissance philosophy / Sergius Kodera

Part 3: Gendered corporeality. Icons of chastity, Objets d'amour : female Renaissance portrait busts as ambivalent bodies / Jeanette Kohl ; Like a virgin : male fantasies of the body in Orlando furioso / Albert R. Ascoli ; "Di sangue illustre & pellegrino" : the eclipse of the body in the lyric of Tullia d'Aragona / Julia L. Hairston ; The beard in sixteenth-century Italy / Douglas Biow ; Body politics and the tongue in sixteenth-century Venice / Elizabeth Horodowich

Part 4: The body involved. "Sauter et voltiger en l'air" : the art of movement in Late Renaissance Italy and France / Sandra Schmidt ; The double life of St. Sebastian in Renaissance art / Bette Talvacchia ; Body elision : acting out the passion at the Italian Sacri Monti / D. Medina Lasansky.