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La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian
Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The
book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and
explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings
of the period-and for its sophisticated treatment of sexual and
political power.
"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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