Six Days

Title: Six Days

Author: Pietro Aretino

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789025302177

Condition: Good

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- As New: Hardly any signs of use, almost as new.
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- New: Book is new.

Description:
In 1534, Pietro Aretino, poet, satirist and polemicist, wrote the sexually very explicit Ragionamenti and Dialoghi, later known as Sei giornate. The author would be praised and reviled for this book and would establish his reputation as a 'prophet of sexuality'. Six Days can be read as a manual for women who want to become proficient in whoredom. Nanna, Pippa's mother, does not know what to do with her daughter. Should she send her to a convent, find a husband for her or let her become a whore? Seated under a fig tree in a shady garden, she and her friend Antonia review the three possibilities in three days. On the first day, convent life is discussed, on the second day the life of married women, and on day three it is the turn of whores. They come to the conclusion that if you have to make love, you might as well get paid for it. On the fourth day, Nanna tells Pippa that she has decided to let her become a whore, and teaches her the tricks of the trade. On the fifth day, the men and their tricks and weaknesses are discussed, and on day six, the matchmakers are discussed. Based on this work, which is widely regarded as pornographic, Aretino's entire literary oeuvre will be placed on the Index of Forbidden Books within three years of his death in 1556. Six Days has been one of the best-known underground literatures in Europe since the end of the sixteenth century. 'This book should be required for all men and forbidden for all women'. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer