Rinascimento
Babilonia Una Storia Erotica dell'Arte Italiana by Luca Scarlini is a new book by Marsilio.
During the Renaissance, close to immense masterpieces and intellectuals of every genre, great was the interest for love and sex in the italian community. An Italy that one profoundly divided in States and in varioud hands .
In this book, constituted of several chapters, we meet Niccolò Machiavelli but also several times i Medici, beautiful girls, and witches, illnesses transmitted because of sex, but also homosexuals tempted by etherosexuals or ermaphrodites, women interested in encounters with strangers. There are men proud of their attributes, but also recipes for not become impregnating.
I found the book pretty interesting, because every aspect of sex has been taken in consideration, and because this book give us back the Italia of a certain erotical comedy, portrayed also magnificiently well in the Decameron by Boccaccio.
Highly recommended.
I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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