When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the
frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French
were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in
Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines
how, as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge
rippled outward from Italy, the sexual landscape and French notions
of masculinity, sexual agency, and procreation were fundamentally
changed. Exploring the use of astrology, the infusion of
Neoplatonism, the critique of Petrarchan love poetry, and the
monarchy's sexual reputation, the book reveals that the French
encountered conflicting ideas from abroad and from antiquity about
the meanings and implications of sexual behavior. Intensely
interested in cultural self-definition, humanists, poets, and
political figures all contributed to the rapid alteration of sexual
ideas to suit French cultural needs. The result was the vibrant
sexual reputation that marks French culture to this day.
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