Which Pope wrote erotic stories? Another entry in Pope-related items in the Penn Manuscripts collect
Which Pope wrote erotic stories? Another entry in Pope-related items in the Penn Manuscripts collections is Ms. Codex 1077, a 15th century German manuscript containing three literary texts. The third work in the codex, Eurialus und Lucretia, is Niklas von Wyle’s German translation of the tale of the two lovers Eurialus and Lucretia (De duobus amantibus, in English “The Tale of Two Lovers”), composed in Latin by Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini). The original Latin text was published in 1444, and was one of the bestselling books of the fifteenth century. It is one of the earliest examples of an epistolary novel, full of erotic imagery.Our copy of this text isn’t especially fancy, but it does include some attractive historiated initials and some fun marginal drawings. Above, from the top, we have an historiated initial with fish from fol. 117v, a man drawn in the margin next to a colored initial on fol. 121r, a lovely face drawn in an initial “U” on 241v, facing pages 241v-242r, and the whole pages for 121r and 117v.Ms. Codex 1077 isn’t on OPenn yet, but you can view it in our page-turning interface, Penn in Hand: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4229416 -- source link
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