Contents: Introduction: playing with boundaries, Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver. Part I Performing Sexuality: Visual pleasures, sensual sounds: music, morality, and sexuality in paintings by Titian, Katherine A. McIver; ’Galeotto fu la metafora’: language and sex in Boccaccio’s Decameron, Catherine Baxter; ’Balla la mona e salta il babuino’: performing obscenity in a musical dialogue, Paul Schleuse. Part II The Erotics of Religion: Sexuality and depictions of the female saint in medieval Tuscany, Catherine Lawless; Leonine lasciviousness and Luther, Anthony M. Cummings; The Roman Church and sexuality: some notes on prelates and regular clergy in sixteenth-seventeenth-century Italian courts, Flavio Rurale. Part III Images of Country Life, Realistic and Artistic: Tradition and gender transgression: the iconography of the shepherd couple in Venetian pastoral landscape during the sixteenth century, Christophe Brouard; ’(El) ge sa bon laorare’: female wealth, male competition, musical festivities, and the Venetian patriciate in Ruzante’s pavan, Linda L. Carroll; ’FarA² quel che mi piacerA?’: fictional women in villotta voice resistance, Melanie L. Marshall. Bibliography; Index.