Bodily Figurae: Sex and Rhetoric in Early Libertine Venice, 1642-51.
This essay will examine and compare two texts that originated in the Venetian Libertine milieu of the Accademia degli Incogniti: Ferrante Pallavicino's La retorica delle puttane (The Whores' Rhetoric; 1642) and Antonio Rocco's L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola (Alcibiades the Schoolboy; 1651). Pallavici...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 97 - 117 |
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2012
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