Clever Little Books - Martial''s Epigrams and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among a male elite in early modern Europe.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Imitations of Martial: Antonio Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus
2. Endless Commentary: Perotti’s Cornucopiae
3. Varieties of Sexual Activity in Martial and the Joint Commentary
4. How Ben Jonson Read His Martial
5. Martial Castrated: Early Modern Censorship of Martial
Works Cited
Index

About the author

By Ian Frederick Moulton

Summary

Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among a male elite in early modern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Frederick Moulton
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9781487558338
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-5833-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies