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L'Œuvre de Nicolas Chorier : satyre sotadique de Luisa Sigea sur les arcanes de l'amour et de Vénus
- Author
- Chorier, Nicolas, 1612-1692.
- Preferred Title
- Satyra sotadica.
- Title
- L'Œuvre de Nicolas Chorier : satyre sotadique de Luisa Sigea sur les arcanes de l'amour et de Vénus / introduction et notes par B. de Villeneuve ; ouvrage orné d'une gravure hors texte.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Paris : Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910 (Orléans : Imprimerie Orléanaise)
- Description
- 252 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 22 cm.
- Other contributors
- Sigea, Luisa, 1530?-1560? spurious author. Meursius, Joannes, 1623-1653. Vèze, Raoul, 1864-
- Series
- Maîtres de l'amour
- Notes
- Commonly known as: Satyra sotadica. The attribution of the work to Luisa Sigea and the Latin "translation" to Jean Meursius were obfuscations on Chorier's part. Cf. Pia, col. 322. For information on and works in this series, including this title, see Reade, p. 378. B. de Villeneuve is a pseudonym of Jean Hervez. For censorship history see Bécourt, p. 52 and Libertine literature in England 1660-1745 / David Foxon. Includes preface to first edition, ca. 1660, and translations of two Latin poems by Chorier from the early editions. Fiction. Censored book. Includes bibliography, p. 27-31.
- Kinsey subjects
- Extramarital sex behavior--Female. Premarital sex education--Female. Chastity belts--Female.