On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de Medici murdered Alessandro de Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino s assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into...