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Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance
Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in
1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was
fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery?
Was the graceful courtier virile or effeminate? How could a man
dress for court without bankrupting himself? This book explores the
whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular
court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's
main textile production centers used their appearances to project
social, sexual, and professional identities. Sixteenth-century male
fashion is often associated with swagger and ostentation but this
book shows that Florentine clothing reflected manhood at a much
deeper level, communicating a very Italian spectrum of male virtues
and vices, from honor, courage, and restraint to luxury and excess.
Situating dress at the heart of identity formation, Currie traces
these codes through an array of sources, including unpublished
archival records, surviving garments, portraiture, poetry, and
personal correspondence between the Medici and their courtiers.
Addressing important themes such as gender, politics, and
consumption, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence sheds
fresh light on the sartorial culture of the Florentine court and
Italy as a whole.
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