Cazzaria The Book of the Prick

Name: Cazzaria The Book of the Prick
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ISBN: 9780415940672

ISBN-10: 0415940672

ISBN-13: 9780415940672

Edition: 2003

Authors: Antonio Vignali, Ian Frederick Moulton, Antonio Vignali

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La Cazzariais 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 Cazzariais 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…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Ian Frederick Moulton is Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA.



Editor's Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Greatest Tangle of Pricks There Ever Was: Knowledge, Sex, and Power in Renaissance Italy



La Cazzaria (Siena, c. 1525)



Bibliography