Taking positions : on the erotic in Renaissance culture
1999, 1st edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth-backed colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #392737
ISBN: 0691026327
Physical description: xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index. Contents: The historical situation -- The style and material remains of I modi -- I modi and their antique paradigms -- The issue of prints -- Printed in words: the verbal representations of Pietro Aretino -- Terms of Renaissance discourse about the erotic: Onesto and Disonesto -- The retreat of sexual representation into mythology -- Mythology, sexuality, and science in Charles Estienne's Manual of anatomy -- Texts and translations -- I sonetti lussuriosi and translations. Subjects: Romano, Giulio 1499-1546; Illustrations; Raimondi, Marcantonio ca. 1480-ca. 1534; 1500-1599; 16th century; Erotic prints Italy History 16th century; Engraving, Italian; Engraving, Renaissance Italy; Sex in art; Erotica history; Eroticism Subject in art; Erotic art Italy 16th century; Sex Depictions Italy 16th century.
Price: €195.00