HECATELEGIUM

by Pacifico Massimi

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First edition

Paris: Imprimé pour Isadore Liseux et ses amis, 1885. First edition thus. First vernacular translation of these suppressed Latin elegies that include the most explicit poetic expressions of homosexual desire of the Italian Renaissance. Near fine. Item #53538 The HECATELEGIUM was first published in Florence in 1489 by a poet so notorious for his open homosexuality that Machiavelli

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