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Contents Acknowledgments ix i . m o n u m e n t s , i m i t at i o n , a n d t h e n o b l e i d e a l i n e a r ly r e n a i s s a n c e i t a ly Introduction: Reinventing Nobility? Artifacts and the Monumental Pose from Petrarch to Platina 1 1. How to Perform Like a Statue: Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and Exemplarity 31 2. From Castrated Statues to Empty Colossi: Emasculation vs. Monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina 64 i i . p r i n t m o n u m e n t s , e x p o s u r e , a n d s t r at e g i e s o f c o n c e a l m e n t 3. Banishing the Hollow Man: Print, Clothing, and Aretino’s Emblems of Truth 123 4. Heroes with Damp Brains? Image vs. Text in Printed Portrait-Books 160 5. Silenus Strategies: The Failure of Personal Emblems 227 Afterword  Notes  Works Cited  Index  ...

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