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Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy /​ edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
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Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy /​ edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco

by Sara Matthews-Grieco

This volume explores the erotic culture of the middle ranks in Renaissance Italy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. Contributors analyse how sexually explicit artefacts, games, and gestures functioned in social rituals and the domestic sphere.

Accession 3438 ISBN 9780754662143 Publisher Ashgate
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