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Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Robert Postman timely and clear defence ofFrom Pliny to Petrarch to Pope Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own