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Aloisiæ Sigeæ Toletanæ Satyra Sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris

Chapter 4: [image] De Aloisia Sigæa Toletana
By Nicolas Chorier
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A series of spoken dialogues offers candid instruction on erotic practices and the techniques of sexual pleasure, delivered in an explicit, didactic register. The text blends satirical bite with learned diction and occasional verse, using rhetorical display to frame descriptions of desire and bodily experience. It repeatedly returns to the secrecy and social transgression that surround intimate knowledge, treating taboo acts with playful moral ambiguity. Structurally it alternates instruction, anecdote, and poetic reflection to examine the pleasures, anxieties, and cultural attitudes linked to love and Venus.

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De Aloisia Sigæa Toletana

JOANNIS VASÆI
 
Hisp. Chron. Cap. 9.
 
TESTIMONIUM

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Ut omnes alias Latinis litteris tinctas silentio præteream, dabit Hispania Aloisiam Sigæam Toletanam, sed in aula Lusitana per multos jam annos educatam: quinque linguarum adeo peritam, ut non immerito Paulus tertius, Pontifex Maximus, litteras illius ad se scriptas Latine, Græce, Hebraice, Syriace, atque Arabice laudibus sit prosecutus, admiratus tam multiplicem ingenii fructum, et donum tam multiplicis linguarum scientiæ, in viris quoque rarum, nedum in fœminis: sic enim sonant verba Diplomatis. Debetur hæc laus optimo patri, et viro doctissimo Didaco Sigæo. Nec in ea solum hanc operam posuit, sed alteram quoque filiam Angelam, Græce, Latineque, pro ætate et sexu non mediocriter eruditam, tam exacta Musices scientia curavit perdocendam, ut vel cum præstantissimis hujus artis professoribus contendere posse putem.

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