Hollow men: writing, objects, and public image in Renaissance Italy

Introduction : reinventing nobility? : artifacts and the monumental pose from Petrarch to Platina

How to perform like a statue : Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and exemplarity

From castrated statues to empty colossi : emasculation vs. monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina

Banishing the hollow man : print, clothing and Aretino's Emblems of truth

Heroes with damp brains? : image vs. text in printed portrait-books

Silenus strategies : the failure of personal emblems.