Isbn: 9780415940665 - la cazzaria: the book of the prick (13 Ergebnisse)

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. Antonio Vignali (1500-1559), also known as Arsiccio Intronato, was a writer from Sienna who died in political exile.Ian Frederick Moulton is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is author of.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire written in 1525 by Antonio Vignali, a young Italian nobleman from Siena. Here, in the Rabelaisian depictions of personified genitalia and other bodily organs, a page of our sexual past is restored.'La Cazzaria is at once a comic fable about bodies and desire, and an outrageous political allegory. Composed as a dialogue between two actual members of one of the most prestigious literary societies of 16th-century Italy, it is organized as a series of fifty-two questions on subjects ranging from anatomy, to psychology, linguistics, and psychology. The text is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other texts of the period-and for its sophisticated treatment of sexual and political power. Written for circulation among a group of educated young men, the dialogue's elitism and misogyny also offers a powerful and often disturbing picture of early modern gender relations.Outrageous and iconoclastic, La Cazzaria was a risque and provocative text in its day, and remains so today. This first English translation is extensively annotated, and the volume includes a detailed and accessible introduction by Ian Frederick Moulton, author of Before Pornography, which provides a historical and intellectual context for this unfamiliar by fascinating text.La Cazzaria is at once a stunning literary achievement, and essential reading for anyone interested in the history of sexuality.…

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