GENERATION AND DEGENERATIONS Valerie Finucci GENERATION AND DEGENERATION Q (cid:55)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:87) blank GENERATION AND DEGENERATION Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe        Q DukeUniversityPress DurhamandLondon ©DukeUniversityPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper’ TypesetinDantebyTsengInformationSystems,Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataappear onthelastprintedpageofthisbook. Anearlierversionof‘‘MenstruatingMen’’waspublishedin Italianas‘‘Uominimenstruanti:Somiglianzaedifferenza fraisessiinEuropainetámoderna,’’QuaderniStorici, no.():–. CONTENTS Q Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION   GenealogicalPleasures, GenealogicalDisruptions   THEORIES OF REPRODUCTION  .  Generation,Degeneration,Regeneration: OriginalSinandtheConceptionofJesusinthePolemic betweenAugustineandJulianof Eclanum    MaternalImaginationandMonstrousBirth: Tasso’sGerusalemmeliberata   BOUNDARIES OF SEX AND GENDER  .  Contradictionsof Masculinity:AsceticInseminators andMenstruatingMeninGreco-RomanCulture    MenstruatingMen:Similarityand DifferenceoftheSexesinEarlyModernMedicine    ThePsychomorphologyoftheClitoris, or,TheReemergenceoftheTribadeinEnglishCulture   FEMALE GENEALOGIES    GenealogiesinCrisis: MaríadeZayasinSeventeenth-CenturySpain    IncestandAgency: TheCaseof ElizabethI   THE POLITICS OF INHERITANCE  .  InSearchoftheOriginsof Medicine: EgyptianWisdomandSomeRenaissancePhysicians    TheConflictedGenealogyof CulturalAuthority:ItalianResponsestoFrenchCultural DominanceinIlTesoretto,IlFiore,andLaCommedia    Hauntings:TheMaterialityof MemoryontheRenaissanceStage  Index  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Q Thisbookwasbornoutofweeklydinnerconversationsheldafewyears agoinPhiladelphia.EachThursdaywealternatedbetweentwodifferent seatingarrangementsattheBrownlees’table:at:,weparticipatedin thechildren’sactivities;andat:,weturnedconversationintoadultcon- cerns.Generationandgenealogyweremorethanfortuitousissuesforusin thosedays,asKevinandI,eachfordifferentexistentialreasons,startedto contestbiologyandretesttime.Soonourprojectturnedintoacollabora- tiveprocess.Bringingcolleaguesonboardbecameanoccasionforcreating friendshipsandrenewingcooperation,andwereliedontheefficiencyof electronicmailtokeepconversationsgoing,nomatterthemiles.Avisitby DaleMartininFlorenceenlargedtheoriginaltimeframeofourinquiry, andaconferenceatDukeUniversityonthebodybroughtinNancySiraisi’s voice.Wehavestories(andmemories)foreachofourfriendsinthevol- ume—theirintellectualinterestsarespreadalloverthesepagesjustastheir withasbrightenedourendeavor. WearehappytoacknowledgethegoodwillofReynoldsSmithofDuke UniversityPressforhisinterestintheprojectandforshepherdingittothe end;theanonymousreaderscontactedbythepressfortheirgeneroussug- gestions, enthusiastic assessments, and a new turn at the title; Giuseppe Gerbinoforhishumorandexpertskillsatindexing;MauraHighforher patienceateachshiftofourcollectivesyntax;PatriciaMickelberryforher professionalhandlingofthemanuscript;andSharonTorianforhersunny disposition. MarinaBrownleeprovidedthemostcheerfulfriendshipandlove.Eliza- bethClarkwasthere,asalways.Tothemwe—theluckyones—dedicate thisbook. (cid:55)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:87) blank