Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Robert Postman with a strategy to create

with a strategy to create a more ordered and ultimately better world

from early Greece until the end of the Roman Republic

enabling increased independence and selfprotection

both on their own terms and in the context of contemporary political applications

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Robert Postman with a strategy to createFrom Pliny to Petrarch to Pope Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own