RINASCIMENTO -- dal "Dizionario di letteratura erotica" (Wedeck)

Speranza

RINASCIMENTO.
---- In this resurgence of intellectual and artistic activity, also named "The Revival of Learning", particularly marked in Italy, J. A. Symonds refers to the effects of the modern world in its refreshed contacts with antiquity.

"The contact of the modern with the ancient world did encourage a profligate and godless mode of living in men who preferred Petronius to Saint Paul, and learned less after Galilee than Corinth."

"The humanists were distinguished even above the Roman clergy for open disorder in their lives."

"They developed filthy speaking as a special branch of rhetoric, and professed the science of recondite and obsolete obscenity."