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10 best books like The School of Whoredom (Pietro Aretino): The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 1, The Heptameron, Jerusalem Delivered, Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England, Ultra-Gash Inferno, The Songs of Bilitis, Orlando Furioso: Part Two, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love), The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works, The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta

The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 1
AuthorE.A. Wallis Budge
ISBN0486220559
Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom, inventor of the art of writing; Osiris, the dead god who arose and set the pattern for death-and-resurrection gods ever since; Isis, the great mother, wandering through the reed swamps; Anubis, conductor of the dead, with jackal head; Bast, the cat goddess; Set,...
The Heptameron
AuthorMarguerite de Navarre
In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling...
Jerusalem Delivered
AuthorTorquato Tasso
ISBN0801863236
Arguably the greatest Italian poet after Dante, Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in 1544 and died in Rome in 1595, having served as the court poet in Ferrara, been confined for years in a madhouse after attacking a servant with a knife, and composed one of the great works of Renaissance literature....
Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England
AuthorJohn Lyly
ISBN0781272130
EARLY ENGLISH WIT, POETRY & SATIRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475...
Ultra-Gash Inferno
AuthorSuehiro Maruo
ISBN1840680393
ULTRA-GASH INFERNO is a collection of graphic art by Suehiro Maruo in the Japanese "erotic-grotesque" (ero-guro) style of manga, a unique fusion of sex and violence unlike anything seen in Western comics. With influences ranging from 19th century atrocity prints to the Sex Pistols, and obsessions...
The Songs of Bilitis
AuthorPierre Louÿs
ISBN0486256707
Et maintenant, sur les pâles prairies d'asphodèles, je me promène, ombre impalpable, et le souvenir de ma vie terrestre est la joie de ma vie souterraine.



Quelques illustrations de George Barbier(1882-1932):
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Orlando Furioso: Part Two
AuthorLudovico Ariosto
One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty...
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)
AuthorMatteo Maria Boiardo
ISBN1932559019
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
AuthorThomas Nashe
ISBN0140430679
Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe's brilliant and comic invective earned him a reputation as the 'English Juvenal' who 'carried the deadly stockado in his pen.' In...
The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta
AuthorGiovanni Boccaccio
ISBN0226062767
A milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1343 and 1345, The Elegy has never before been available...
A Treatise on Painting
AuthorLeonardo da Vinci
ISBN0486441555
Artists: this is a precise, highly mathematic book! Must be read and studied slowly, as Davinci has observed the world around him with painstaking care. In Chapter 74, for instance, I’ve no doubt he made a model walk against wind currents for hours… and just took notes.

Curious about how...
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
AuthorFrancesco Colonna
ISBN0500285497
One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999.
It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological...
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140449000
The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals. Both Lazarillo de Tormesand Pablos and the swindler are determined to attain...
Amicizia
AuthorHermann Hesse
ISBN8879830414
Scritto quando Hesse aveva circa trent'anni (1907-1908), questo breve romanzo narra la storia di due giovani, Hans Calwer ed Erwin Mühletal, giunti davanti alla soglia decisiva di un distacco dai valori dell'infanzia, alla ricerca di una nuova identità, divisi tra la nostalgia dell'eden perduto...
Erotic Poems
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790.

Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in...
The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library
AuthorMarvin W. Meyer
ISBN0060821086
This book opens the with the story of the discovery of the ancient codices at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. Muhammad Ali, the fellahin, discovered the sealed jar, he feared that it might contain a jinni, or spirit, but also had heard of hidden treasures in such jars. Greed overcame his fears. When he smashed open...
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo De Tormes and The Swindler
AuthorFrancisco de Quevedo
ISBN0140442111
A pair of tales that helped lay the foundation for the Spanish novel. The first, "Lazarillo de Tormes," was written in 1554 by an anonymous author and tells of a rambunctious young man from Salamanca who schemes against his various masters. Cervantes was a big admirer. The second, "The Swindler," was...
Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture
AuthorBram Dijkstra
ISBN0805055495
Bram Dijkstra begins this analysis with the 1915 silent film A Fool There Was, in which Theda Bara first embodied our century's vision of the Vamp--kohl-eyed and predatory, seducing respectable men and destroying them with her voracious appetite. Dijkstra makes clear that this wasn't just a vision...
The Story of My Escape: The Story of My Escape from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice Otherwise Known as the Leads
AuthorGiacomo Casanova
ISBN1495284352
Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed. The question is, which crime? In 1755, the infamous Giacomo Casanova was locked up without trial in Venice's notorious Leads prison. Over 15 months he battled disease, madness, boredom, grotesque...
The Maimed
AuthorHermann Ungar
ISBN8086264130
Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from...
My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man
AuthorGeorges Bataille
ISBN0714530042
My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.—Publishers Weekly

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh....
Studies in Ethnomethodology
AuthorHarold Garfinkel
ISBN0745600050
This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics. It is one of the most original and controversial works in modern...
In Search of Islamic Feminism
AuthorElizabeth Warnock Fernea
ISBN0385488580
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now, traveling...
Matka Joanna od Aniołów
AuthorJarosław Iwaszkiewicz
W klasztorze Urszulanek w Ludyniu dzieją się niepokojące rzeczy. Matkę przełożoną opętał szatan. Egzorcyzmy na zakonnicach nie przynoszą rezultatu.
Uniesienie mistyczne? Obłęd? Stłumiony erotyzm? A może psychologiczna manipulacja, jak przynajmniej początkowo wydaje...
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