1426

According to one authority, the first book of purely or mainly erotic content to be published in Christian Europe was the "Hermaphrodite" of Antonio Beccadelli, written in 1426. The Latin text was reissued in 1892 with a French translation by Isidore Liseux, the scholarly French publisher of erotica and the literature of love. Beccadelli, who wrote under the name of Panormita, was one of the group of men later called humanist; he modelled much of his work on the writings of the poets of antiquity. Wayland Young suggests that Beccadelli, like Martial, was half fascinated and half disgusted "by women and fucking." --From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records.

Antonio Beccadelli

BECCADELLI, Antonio. – L'Hermaphrodite de Panormita (XVe siècle). Traduit pour la première fois (par Alcide Bonneau) avec le texte latin et un choix des notes de Forberg. Paris, 1892. 8vo. pp. xix+154. Limited to 110 copies. [British Library: Cup.364.m.34.] --Patrick J. Kearney

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