Overview :As I was preparing material for my book The Bloomsbury Set I came upon the life of one of the Bloomsbury children, Burgo Partridge, and his ... Read More
Overview :Just off the coast of Naples, the jewel known as Capri soars from seas of cobalt and azure, as poets have written since the time of Tiberius... Read More
Overview :What decided me to write this book were both the chiaro and the obscuro of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The chiaro: The eroticism found in cert... Read More
Overview :In writing this book I'm casting very large. Academies and Lyceums in Greece, home of the world's most beautiful ephebes, Spartan barracks, ... Read More
Overview :A hero to some, the Anti-Christ to others, loved and hated, Buckingham gained power thanks to his beauty and held it due to his intelligence... Read More
Overview :This book will not only cover the lives of the artists--painters and sculptors--who brought to sensual life a beautiful boy in the guise of ... Read More
Overview :Venice was a homosexual crossroads, where no boy-lovers, or few, elected residence on the islands, and there were no, or few, island lads wh... Read More
Overview :Men are naturally omnisexual and from the most ancient times they have bonded, intellectually and physically under the Greeks, a trend that ... Read More
Overview :The rogues in this book contain a number of lightweights, like Donatello, whose first crime was throwing one of his creations, a bronze bust... Read More
Overview :Germany could just as well be called Prussia today because Prussia was its heart and mind, a warrior class that ceased to exist in 1947 when... Read More
Overview :The YMCA was a religious grouping of men, an uplifting assembly based on shared spiritual values between members, in search, often in bible ... Read More
Overview :The honor of beginning this three-part book goes overwhelmingly to the Germans who became so involved in homosexuality, as actors and in res... Read More
Overview :The moment Alexander VI became pope the alert was given by Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici: ''Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rap... Read More
Overview :Unlimited wealth, power and sex have been the driving forces of men's dreams since the first pharaohs, archons, emperors and kings, the fulf... Read More
Overview :As in all my books, the crucible here will be the love between men and boys, the Sacred Band being the finest, the most concrete example in ... Read More
Overview :Catherine was the female love of Peter's life, Menshikov was the male. Both Catherine and Menshikov had been poor, both Lithuanian, Menshiko... Read More
Overview :The Greeks celebrated their dead with steles and statues depicting them at the age philosophers judged so beautiful that it was reserved for... Read More
Overview :Louis XIV, like the Ancient Romans, was a believer in war, war that united citizens behind a cause, that kept the people on the battlefields... Read More