“Beautifully but shamefully printed up”: Reading the erotic in sixteenth century book culture
Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
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PUBLIC LECTURE "Beautifully but shamefully printed up": Reading the erotic in sixteenth century book culture Lecture by Dr Linda Grant This lecture will be online only. In this talk, I will start by looking at an infamous ‘obscene’ book from sixteenth century Italy: Pietro Aretino’s sonnetti lussuriosi and the ‘pornographic’ engravings that accompanied them, together […]