Christine Corretti, Ph.D. (2011) is a specialist of early modern Italian art and author of a variety of books and articles, including Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi: Configurations of the Body of State (Brill, 2015).

• ContentsPrologue viiList of Figures xvi xviii1 The Story of Perseus and Medusa, an Interpretation of Its Meaning, andthe Topos of Decapitation 12 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa : The Paradigm of Control 173 Renaissance Political Theory and Paradoxes of Power 574 The Goddess as Other and Same 925 The Sexual Symbolism of the Perseus and Medusa 1046 The Public Face of Justice 1097 Classical and Grotesque Polities 1278 Eleonora di Toledo and the Image of the Mother Goddess 137Conclusion 154Bibliography 157Index 173

Christine Corretti, Ph.D. (2011) is a specialist of early modern Italian art and author of a variety of books and articles, including Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi: Configurations of the Body of State (Brill, 2015).

• ContentsPrologue viiList of Figures xvi xviii1 The Story of Perseus and Medusa, an Interpretation of Its Meaning, andthe Topos of Decapitation 12 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa : The Paradigm of Control 173 Renaissance Political Theory and Paradoxes of Power 574 The Goddess as Other and Same 925 The Sexual Symbolism of the Perseus and Medusa 1046 The Public Face of Justice 1097 Classical and Grotesque Polities 1278 Eleonora di Toledo and the Image of the Mother Goddess 137Conclusion 154Bibliography 157Index 173

Christine Corretti, Ph.D. (2011) is a specialist of early modern Italian art and author of a variety of books and articles, including Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi: Configurations of the Body of State (Brill, 2015).

• ContentsPrologue viiList of Figures xvi xviii1 The Story of Perseus and Medusa, an Interpretation of Its Meaning, andthe Topos of Decapitation 12 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa : The Paradigm of Control 173 Renaissance Political Theory and Paradoxes of Power 574 The Goddess as Other and Same 925 The Sexual Symbolism of the Perseus and Medusa 1046 The Public Face of Justice 1097 Classical and Grotesque Polities 1278 Eleonora di Toledo and the Image of the Mother Goddess 137Conclusion 154Bibliography 157Index 173