Il Bravo di Tiziano: Bernardino Correr e Vittore Foscari

Speranza


"un Bernardino Correr, uomo rotto ad ogni libidine, si avventa di notte sul bellissimo

giovane Vettore Foscari, gli taglia le brache e gli usa per strada violenza come una

donzella."

Scarabello

acknowledges that it was the incidence of violent acts, like rape, that were responded to

by authorities in Venezia. One of the most famous episodes, recorded by Marino Sanudo, recounts

an encounter similar to the one depicted in

Il Bravo, in which “Bernardino Correr,

overtaken with lust, hurled himself one night on the beautiful youth Vittore Foscari, cut

off his trousers, and violently used him in the street like a woman.”