Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
I Porni
By Robert M. Adams
I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance
by Giulio Romano, by Marcantonio Raimondi, by Pietro Aretino, by Count Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner
Northwestern University Press, 132 pp., $15.95 (paper)
The core of I modi is a collection of sixteen pornographic sonnets in Italian with sixteenth-century Italian woodcuts appended to most of them. How the book came into being, and the many vicissitudes through which it has reached us, make up a long story—so complex that it has to be approached, like the ladies depicted in the woodcuts, from several different directions.
Review, 1642 words
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