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Editions of The Island of Hermaphrodites (L’isle des Hermaphrodites)
and Other Works Attributed to Artus Thomas or Thomas Artus

Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos. Histoire de la décadence de l’Empire grec et establissement de celui des Turcs [History of the Decline of the Greek Empire and Establishment of that of the Turks]. Trans. Blaise de Vigenère and Artus Thomas. Paris: Cramoisy, 1650.

Description de l’Isle des Hermaphrodites nouvellement decouverte, contenant les Moeurs, les Coutumes et les Ordonnances des Habitans de ceste Isle [Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites, newly Discovered, containing the Mores, Customs and Laws of the Inhabitants of this Island]. Cologne (Brussels?): chez les Héritiers de Herman Demen, 1724.

Description de l’Isle des Hermaphrodites nouvellement découverte ​—​ Avec les Moeurs, loix, Coutumes et Ordonnances des Habitans d’icelle [Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites, newly discovered, with the Mores, Laws, Customs and Ordinances of the Inhabitants of this Island]. In Journal de Henri III, Roy de France et de Pologne, ou Memoires pour servir à l’histoire de France par M. Pierre de L’Estoile [The Journal of Henri III, King of France and Poland, or Memoirs to Serve the History of France by M. Pierre de L’Estoile]. La Haye et Paris: P. Gandouin, 1744.

Discours contre la médisance. Si l’on peut dire que la vertu est plus rigoureusement punie que le vice, dialogue [Discourse against Slander. Whether One can Say that Virtue is more Rigorously Punished than Vice, Dialogue]. Paris: Lucas Breyel, 1600.

Les Hermaphrodites (or: L’Isle des Hermaphrodites nouvellement descouverte [The Island of Hermaphrodites newly discovered]). Paris: np, 1605.

L’Isle des hermaphrodites. Ed. Claude-Gilbert Dubois. Geneva: Droz, 1996.

Philostrates of Lemnos. Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates [The Images and Paintings of the two Philostrates]. Trans. into French by Blaise de Vigenère. Paris: Widow of A. L’Angelier and M. Guillemot, 1615.

Qu’il est bien séant que les filles soyent sçavantes [It is Suitable for Girls to be Educated]. Paris: L. Breyel, 1600.

Zinguer, Ilana. Misères et grandeur de la femme au XVIe siècle [The Miseries and Greatness of Women in the Sixteenth Century]. Geneva: Slatkine, 1982.

Criticism of The Island of Hermaphrodites

Brétigny, Jonathas Petit de. L’Anti-hermaphrodite, ou le secret, tant desiré de beaucoup, de l’advis propose au Roy pour reparer par un bel ordre, et legitime moyen, aussi facilement, qu’insensiblement, tous les desordres, impietés, injustices, abus, meschancetez, et corruptions qui sont en ce royaume [The Anti-Hermaphrodite, or the Secret, so Desired by Many, of the advice offered to the King to Repair by a Beautiful Order and by Legitimate Means, Easily and in an Undetectable Manner, all the Disorders, Impieties, Injustices, Abuses, Cruelties, and Corruptions that are in this Kingdom]. Paris: Jean Berjon, 1606.

Dubois, Claude-Gilbert. “Horrible sphinx et peau de panthère: l’hermaphrodisme comme style de vie et d’écriture à la fin du XVIe siècle” [Horrible sphinx and panther’s skin: hermaphrodism as a lifestyle and writing style at the end of the 16th century]. In Prose et prosateurs de la Renaissance [Prose and Prose Writers in the Renaissance] , 309–18. Paris: SEDES, 1988.

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Jones, Ann Rosalind and Peter Stallybrass. “Fetishizing Gender: Constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe.” In Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity. Ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, 80–111. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Leibacher-Ouvrard, Lise. “Decadent Dandies and Dystopian Gender-Bending: Artus Thomas’s L’Isle des hermaphrodites (1605).” Utopian Studies 11 (2000): 124–31.

Long, Kathleen. Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006; repr. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle. “L’autre monde ou l’utopie sexuelle” [The Other World or the Sexual Utopia]. In La Découverte de nouveaux mondes. Aventure et voyages imaginaires au XVIIe siècle, Actes du XXIIe Colloque du Centre Méridional de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Gênes 23–25 janvier 1992 [The Discovery of New Worlds. Adventure and Imaginary Voyages in the XVIIth Century. Proceedings of the XXIIth Colloquium of the Southern Center of Meetings on the XVIIth Century] , 299–308. Genoa: Schena, 1993.

Palumu, Annarita. “Relire L’Isle des Hermaphrodites (1605)” [Rereading The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605)]. Pratiques et formes littéraires 20 (2023). https://publications-prairial.fr/pratiques-et-formes-litteraires/index.php?id=519.

Patera, Teodoro. “‘Un homme à demy’: gender, esthétisme et reconnaissance dans ‘L’Isle des Hermaphrodites’” [‘Half a Man:’ Gender, Aestheticism and Recognition in The Island of Hermaphrodites]. Studi francesi 189 (2019): 430–41.

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History/ Law

Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Aquinas, Thomas. De articulis fidei et Ecclesiae sacramentis ad archiepiscopum Panormitanum [On the Articles of Faith and Sacraments of the Church to the Archbishop Panormitanus]. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Arentzen, Thomas, Virginia Burrus, and Glenn Peers. “Writing on Trees.” Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination, 21–64. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.

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Exhortation aux vrays et entiers Catholiques. En laquelle est ensemble demonstré, que ce qu’est dernierement arrivé à Paris, n’est acte de rebellion contre la Majesté du Roy [Exhortation to true and entire Catholics, in which is wholly demonstrated that what happened recently in Paris was not an act of rebellion against the Majesty of the King]. Paris: Guillaume Bichon, 1588.

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Henri IV (de Bourbon), King of France. Declaration du roy du XXIV juin 1598, pour l’establissement des offices de iaugeurs, mesureurs de vaisseaux, barriques, tonneaux, & fustailles à mettre vins, cidres, bieres, huiles, verjus, vinaigres, & autres breuvages & liqueurs: en toutes les villes, bourgs & paroisses de ce royaume. Verifiée en la cour des aydes, le vingstseptième octobre 1598 [Declaration of the king on the 24 of June 1598, for the establishment of the posts of gauger, measurers of vessels, casks, barrels, and hogsheads for holding wines, ciders, beers, oils, verjuices, vinegars, and other drinks and liquors. In all cities, towns, and parishes of this kingdom. Verified in the Court of Aids the twenty-seventh of October, 1598]. Paris: Antoine Estienne, P. Mettayer, C. Prevost, 1629.

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Knecht, Robert J. The French Religious Wars, 1562–1598. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2002.

LaGuardia, David. “Two Queens, a Dog, and a Purloined Letter: on Memory as a Discursive Phenomenon in Late Renaissance France.” Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century French Literature, 19–36. Ed. David LaGuardia and Cathy Yandell. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015.

La Taille, Jean de. Discours notables des duels, de leur origine en France, et du malheur qui en arrive tous les jours au grand interest du public. Ensemble des moyens qu’il y auroit d’y pourvoir [Notable Discourses on Duels, on their Origin in France, and on the Misfortune which Occurs Every Day with Great Harm to the Public. Together with the Means to Deal with This]. Paris: Claude Rigaud, 1607.

Le Roux, Nicolas. La faveur du Roi: mignons et courtisans au temps des derniers Valois (vers 1547 ​—​ vers 1589) [The Favor of the King: Minions and Courtesans in the Time of the Last Valois (from about 1547 to about 1589)]. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2000.

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Le Roux, Nicolas. “Le point d’honneur, la faveur et le sacrifice: recherches sur le duel des mignons d’Henri III” [The Point of Honor, the Favor, and the Sacrifice: Research on the Duel of the Mignons of Henri III]. Histoire, Économie et Société 16, no. 4 (1997): 579–595.

Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition of Spain. Vol 3. New York: MacMillan, 1906–07.

L’Estoile, Pierre de. Mémoires-Journaux 1574–1611 [Memoirs-Journals 1574–1611]. 9 vols. Paris: Tallandier, 1982.

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Moule, Arthur C. Quinsai. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage, 1989.

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Paré, Ambroise. On Monsters and Marvels. Trans. Janis L. Pallister. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Parsons, Jotham. Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Pintard, René. Le libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle [Erudite Libertinage in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century]. Geneva: Slatkine, 2000.

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Pottinger, David T. “Censorship.” The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791, 54–81. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958.

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Quetel, Claude. Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis. Paris: Seghers, 1986.

Raemond, Florimond de. L’Anti-Christ. Lyon: J. Pillehotte, 1597.

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Literature/ Philosophy

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Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d.’ Les Tragiques. Trans. Valerie Worth-Stylianou. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020.

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Hall, Joseph. Another World and Yet the Same: Bishop Joseph Hall’s Mundus alter et idem, trans. John Millar Wands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

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Hayes, Bruce. “Rabelaisian Satire and the Conciliation of the Satyre Ménippée.” Lingua Romana 17, no. 1, Renovatio, Recettes, Renaissances: Essays in Honor of Jean-Claude Carron (Spring 2023): 104–14.

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Rabelais, François. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Trans. J. M. Cohen. London: Penguin, 1955.

Rabelais, François. Œuvres completes. Ed. Mireille Huchon. Paris: Gallimard, 1994.

Rapin, Nicolas et al. Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d’Espagne et de la tenue des Estatz de Paris [Menippean Satire on the Virtue of the Spanish Catholicon and the Meeting of the Estates of Paris]. Ratisbonne: Les Heritiers de Mathias Kerner, 1594.

Rigolot, François. Les languages de Rabelais [The Languages of Rabelais]. Geneva: Droz, 1996.

Rigolot, François. “Quel ‘genre’ d’amour pour Louise Labé?” [What Gender of Love for Louise Labé?]. Poétique 55 (1983): 303–17.

Tyard, Pontus de. Oeuvres complètes. Vol. 1. Ed. Eva Kushner. Paris: Champion, 2004.

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Architecture and Art

Havard, Henry. Dictionnaire de l’ameublement et de la decoration depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu’a nos jours [Dictionary of Household Wares and of Decoration from the 13th Century to the Present Day]. 4 vols. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin/ Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, 1887–90.

Heuer, Christopher. The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Hollstein, F.W.H. Hollstein’s Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, 1450–1700. Volumes XLVII and XLVIII: Vredeman de Vries. Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Interactive, 1997.

Long, Kathleen. “Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Work of Melancholy.” In Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700. Ed. Walter Melion and Karl Enenkel, 547–71. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Long, Kathleen. “Rereading Space in The Island of Hermaphrodites.” In Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond. Ed. Dorothea Heitsch and Jeremie Korta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Uppenkamp, Barbara. “The Influence of Hans Vredeman de Vries on the Cityscape Constructed like a Picture.” In Hans Vredeman de Vries and the Artes Mechanicae Revisited. Ed. Piet Lombaerde, 117–28. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

Vredeman de Vries, Hans. Caryatidum [. . .] sive Athlantidum multiformium [The Multiform Caryatid. . .or Athlantid]. Antwerp: Gerard de Jode, 1565?

Vredeman de Vries, Hans. Scenographiae, sive perspectivae [Scenography, or Perspective]. Anvers: Hieronymus Cock, 1560; second edition, 1563.

Vredeman de Vries, Hans. Theatrum Vitae Humanae [The Theatre of Human Life]. Antwerp: Peeter Baltens, 1577.

Vredeman de Vries, Hans. Variae Architecturae formae [Various Architectural Forms]. Antwerp: Theodore Galle, 1601.

Zorach, Rebecca. Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Clothing

Bastien, Pascal. “‘Aux tresors dissipez l’on cognoist le malfaict’: Hiérarchie sociale et transgression des ordonnances somptuaires en France, 1543–1606” [“From the Treasure Wasted One Knows the Misdeed”: Social Hierarchy and the Transgression of Sumptuary Edicts in France, 1543–1606]. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 23, no. 4 (1999): 23–43.

Earnshaw, Pat. A Dictionary of Lace. Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK: Shire Publications, 1984.

Earnshaw, Pat. Lace in Fashion: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. Guildford: Gorse, 1991.

Levey, Santina M. Lace: A History. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.

Long, Kathleen. “Shaping Bodies, Reimagining the World: Sartorial Prosthesis in L’isle des hermaphrodites (1605).” L’Esprit Créateur 61, no. 4, special issue on Disability’s Worldmaking: Pasts and Futures. Ed. Tammy Berberi and Jennifer Row (2021): 127–39.

Montupet, Janine, and Ghislaine Schoeller. Lace: The Elegant Web. New York: Harry Abrams, 1990.

Ruppert, Jacques. Le Costume, vol. 2: Renaissance ​—​ Louis XIII. Paris: Flammarion, 1930.

Vinciolo, Federico de. Les singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts, du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, pour toutes sortes d’ouvrages de Lingerie [The Singular and New Patterns of Lord Frederick de Vinciolo, for All Sorts of Work in Linen]. Paris: Jean le Clerc le jeune, 1587.

Dietetics

Albala, Ken. Eating Right in the Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Belon, Pierre. L’histoire de la nature des oyseaux [The History of the Nature of Birds]. Paris: G. Cauellat, 1555.

Bèze, Théodore de. Satyres Chrestiennes de la cuisine papale [The Christian Satires of the Papal Kitchen]. Ed. Charles-Antoine Chamay. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Calano, Prosper. Traicté excellent de l’entretenement de santé, auquel est déclaré la nature de toutes sortes de pain, vin, eau, chair, poisson, et plusieurs autres choses qui sont en commun usage pour la commodité de la vie d’un chascun. Trans. Jean Goeurot. Paris: Vincent Sertenas, 1550.

Du Chesne, Joseph. Le Pourtraict de la santé [The Picture of Health]. Paris: Claude Morel, 1606, repr. 1627.

Estienne, Charles. De Nutrimentis ad Baillyum libri tres [The Three Books on Nutrition to Bailly]. Paris: Ex officina Rob. Steph. Typographi Regii, 1550.

Galen. De alimentorum facultatibus libri tres [Three Books on the Properties of Foods]. Lyon: Guillaume Rouil, Sub scuto Veneto, 1549.

Galen. De euchymia et cacochymia, seu de bonis malisque succis generandis [On Good and Bad Humoral Balances, or that which Generates Good and Bad Humors]. Trans. Johann Winter von Andernach. Paris: Simon Colinaeum, 1530.

Galen. De sanitate tuenda libri sex. Trans. Thomas Linacre. Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1526.

Galen. Hygiene. Ed. and trans. Ian Johnston. 2 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Galen. Le Livre de C. Galen traictant des viandes qui engendrent bon et mauvais suc, mis en François pour Monsieur le Baron de Saint Plancard, capitaine de galeres [The Book of C. Galen describing Foods that Engender Good and Bad Humors]. Paris: Vincent Sertenas, 1553.

Galen. On the Properties of Foodstuffs. Trans. Owen Powell. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

García-Ballester, Luis. Galen and Galenism. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.

Giacomotto-Charra, Violaine. “Le Régime de santé, vecteur de diffusion des savoirs nouveaux: L’Exemple du Pourtraict de la santé de Joseph Du Chesne” [The Health Regimen, Vector of Dissemination of New Knowledges: The Example of The Portrait of Health by Joseph Du Chesne]. In Formes du savoir medical à la Renaissance [Forms of Medical Knowledge in the Renaissance]. Ed. Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Jacqueline Vons, 231–57. Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine, 2017.

Giacomotto-Charra, Violaine. “Prévenir et guérir à l’âge de la nature corrompue: Le Pourtraict de la santé (1606) de Joseph Du Chesne” [To Prevent and Cure in the Age of Corrupt Nature: The Portrait of Health (1606) by Joseph Du Chesne]. Représenter la corruption à l’âge baroque (1580–1660) [Representing Corruption in the Baroque Era (1580–1660)]. Ed. Frank Lestringant and Adrien Paschoud. Special issue, Études de lettres, no. 3–4 (2015): 83–99.

Jeanneret, Michel. Des Mets et des Mots: Banquets et propos de table à la Renaissance. [A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance].Paris: Corti, 1987.

Joubert, Laurent, and Gaspard Bachot. Premiere et seconde partie des erreurs populaires, touchant la medecine et le regime de santé [The First and Second Parts of the Popular Errors, Touching on Medicine and Health Regimens]. Paris: Claude Micard, 1587.

La Framboisière, Nicolas-Abraham de. Le Gouvernement necessaire a chacun pour vivre longuement en santé [The Governance Necessary to Each Man, to Live a Long and Healthy Life]. Paris: Marc Orry, 1608.

Long, Kathleen. “Dining with the Hermaphrodites: Courtly Excess and Dietary Manuals in Early Modern France.” Romanic Review, special issue, Literature and Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. Julie Singer and Colette H. Winn. 113, no. 1 (May 2022): 87–111.

Moncorgé, Marie-Josèphe. Lyon 1555, capitale de la culture gourmande au XVIe siècle: Cuisine, confiture, diététique, cosmétique. . . [Lyon 1555: Capital of gourmand Culture in the Sixteenth Century, preserves, dietetics, cosmetics. . .] Lyon: Éditions Lyonnaises d’Art et d’Histoire, 2008.

Nicoud, Marilyn. Les Régimes de santé au Moyen Âge: Naissance et diffusion d’une écriture médicale, XIII–XVe siècle [Regimens of Health in the Middle Ages: The Birth and Dissemination of a Medical Genre, 13th–15th Centuries]. Rome: École française de Rome, 2007.

Nostradamus, Michel. Traité des confitures. [Treatise on Preserves]. Trans. Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine (Paris: IMAGO, 2015).

Platina [Bartolomei Sacchi]. De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine. [On Right Pleasure of Good Health]. Rome: Ulrich Han (?), 1470.

Platina [Bartolomei Sacchi]. De honneste volupté: Sensuyt le livre de Platine tresutile et necessaire a toutes gens, lequel nous monstre et enseigne comment lon doit regir et gouverner le corps humain pour vivre longuement en bonne sante, et est divise en dix parties [On Honorable Pleasure: Here Follows the Book of Platina, very Useful and Necessary to all People, which Shows and Teaches Us how One Should Rule and Govern the Human Body in order to Live a Long and Healthy Life; divided into ten parts]. Lyon: Antoyne du Ry, 1528.

Platina [Bartolomei Sacchi]. On Right Pleasure and Good Health. Ed. and trans. Mary Ella Milham. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998.

Szabari, Antónia. “The Kitchen and the Digest.” In Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France, 96–125. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Temkin, Owsei. Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.

Tomasik, Timothy J. “Fishes, Fowl, and La Fleur de toute cuisine: Gaster and Gastronomy in Rabelais’s Quart Livre.” In Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare. Ed. Joan Fitzpatrick, 25–51. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010.

Tomasik, Timothy J. “To Cook, Perchance to Dream: Recipes for Reverie in Early Modern France.” Lingua Romana 17, no. 1, Renovatio, Recettes, Renaissances: Essays in Honor of Jean-Claude Carron (Spring 2023): 34–43.

Gender

Hennig, Jean-Luc. Espadons, mignons & autres monstres: Vocabulaire de l’homosexualité masculine sous l’Ancien Régime [Studs, Cuties, and Other Monsters: The Vocabulary of Male Homosexuality in Pre-Revolutionary France]. Paris: le cherche midi, 2014.

LaGuardia, David P. Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.

Le Gall, Jean-Marie. Un idéal masculin: Barbes et moustaches (XVe–XVIIIe siècles) [A Masculine Ideal: Beards and Moustaches (15th–18th Centuries)]. Paris: Payot, 2011.

Long, Kathleen. “The Case of Marin le Marcis.” In Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern. Ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021, 68–94.

Plato. Symposium. Trans. Michael Joyce. Collected Dialogues. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, 526–74. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.

Poirier, Guy, L’Homosexualité dans l’imaginaire de la Renaissance. Paris: Champion, 1996.

Ronzeaud, Pierre. L’Utopie hermaphrodite: La terre Australe connue de Gabriel de Foigny. Marseille: Centre Méridional de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle, 1982.

Rothstein, Marian. The Androgyne in Early Modern France: Contextualizing the Power of Gender. New York: Palgrave, 2015.

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