Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance ItalyItalian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and interprets the Renaissance glitterati gorgeously dressed and adorned men to reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo and the piazza, seduced audiences and materialized power. Fifteenth century