Table of Contents:
  • Michelangelo : myth as personal imagery
  • Correggio at Mantua : libertinism and gender ambiguity in northern Italy
  • Parmigianino and Giulio Romano : Ganymede's associations with Apollo, Hebe, and Cupid
  • Benvenuto Cellini : the libertine and the counter-reformation
  • The seventeenth century and diffusion to the north
  • Conclusion.