Download or read book The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930 written by Y. Ivory and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.