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Joannis Meursii Elegantiæ Latini sermonis, seu, Aloisia Sigæa Toletana, De arcanis amoris & Veneris, adjunctis fragmentis quibusdam eroticis
- Author
- Chorier, Nicolas, 1612-1692.
- Preferred Title
- Satyra sotadica. Latin.
- Title
- Joannis Meursii Elegantiæ Latini sermonis, seu, Aloisia Sigæa Toletana, De arcanis amoris & Veneris, adjunctis fragmentis quibusdam eroticis.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Editio accuratior, mendis innumeris purgata
- Published
- Birminghamiæ [i.e. France?] : Ex typis Nonnullius, 1770.
- Description
- 2 v. (xxxviii, 296 p., [1] leaf of plates; [8], 285 p.) : 1 ill. ; 14 cm. (12mo in eights and fours)
- Other contributors
- Sigea, Luisa, 1530?-1560? spurious author. Meursius, Joannes, 1623-1653.
- Notes
- Commonly known as: Satyra sotadica. The attribution of the dialogues to Luisa Sigea and of their "translation" into Latin to Joannes Meursius were obfuscations on the part of the actual author, Nicolas Chorier. Cf. Pia, col. 322. Place of publication from BM. For censorship history see Bécourt, p. 52, and Libertine literature in England / David Foxon. Fiction. Censored book.
- Contents
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- v. 1. Testimonium de Aloisia Sigæa Toletana Joannis Vasæi. Poemation [sic] de laudibus Aloisiæ. Summo viro Aloisia. Dialogues 1-6
- v. 2. Monitum lectori. Dialogue 7. Fragmenta aliquot erotica.
- References
- BM, 1966-70, v. 16, col. 1041. Ria, col. 328. BM lacks v. 2.
- Kinsey subjects
- Extramarital sex behavior--Female. Premarital sex education--Female. Chastity belts--Female.