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I modi : the sixteen pleasures : an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance : Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck
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I modi : the sixteen pleasures : an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance : Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck

by Lynne Lawner

Available in English for the first time, this volume translates and analyses sixteen Renaissance lovemaking positions and accompanying sonnets, exploring their significant influence on European decorative arts, erotic poetry, and cultural behaviour.

Accession 2954 ISBN 0810108046 Publisher Northwestern University Press
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