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*Beccadelli's critics included the theologian Antonio da Rho (1395-1447), a [[Franciscan]] from [[Milan]], who would write a ''Philippic against Antonio Panormita'' (1431/32). Panormita had written [[invective]] poetry [[ridiculing]] Rho with obscene [[insults]], but he would have to defend not only his work but also his life and morals. Rho discredited and [[vilified]] Beccadelli by making [[allegation]]s about the poet's Sicilian background, [[orthodoxy]], and practice of [[taboo|sexual taboos]]. *Beccadelli's critics included the theologian Antonio da Rho (1395-1447), a [[Franciscan]] from [[Milan]], who would write a ''Philippic against Antonio Panormita'' (1431/32). Panormita had written [[invective]] poetry [[ridiculing]] Rho with obscene [[insults]], but he would have to defend not only his work but also his life and morals. Rho discredited and [[vilified]] Beccadelli by making [[allegation]]s about the poet's Sicilian background, [[orthodoxy]], and practice of [[taboo|sexual taboos]].
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According to one authority, the first book of purely or mainly erotic content to be published in Christian Europe was the "[[Hermaphrodite]]" of [[Antonio Beccadelli]], written in [[1426]]. The Latin text was reissued in 1892 with a French translation by [[Isidore Liseux]], the scholarly French publisher of erotica and the literature of love. Beccadelli, who wrote under the name of [[Panormita]], was one of the group of men later called humanist; he modelled much of his work on the writings of the poets of antiquity. [[Wayland Young]] suggests that Beccadelli, like Martial, was half fascinated and half disgusted "by women and fucking." --From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records. According to one authority, the first book of purely or mainly erotic content to be published in Christian Europe was the "[[Hermaphrodite]]" of [[Antonio Beccadelli]], written in [[1426]]. The Latin text was reissued in 1892 with a French translation by [[Isidore Liseux]], the scholarly French publisher of erotica and the literature of love. Beccadelli, who wrote under the name of [[Panormita]], was one of the group of men later called humanist; he modelled much of his work on the writings of the poets of antiquity. [[Wayland Young]] suggests that Beccadelli, like Martial, was half fascinated and half disgusted "by women and fucking." --From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records.
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== Antonio Beccadelli == == Antonio Beccadelli ==
BECCADELLI, Antonio. – L'Hermaphrodite de Panormita (XVe siècle). Traduit pour la première fois (par Alcide Bonneau) avec le texte latin et un choix des notes de Forberg. Paris, 1892. 8vo. pp. xix+154. Limited to 110 copies. [British Library: Cup.364.m.34.] --Patrick J. Kearney BECCADELLI, Antonio. – L'Hermaphrodite de Panormita (XVe siècle). Traduit pour la première fois (par Alcide Bonneau) avec le texte latin et un choix des notes de Forberg. Paris, 1892. 8vo. pp. xix+154. Limited to 110 copies. [British Library: Cup.364.m.34.] --Patrick J. Kearney
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Antonio Beccadelli (13941471), called Il Panormita (poetic form meaning "The Palermitan"), was an Italian poet, canon lawyer, scholar, diplomat, and chronicler. He generally wrote in Latin. Born in Palermo, he was the eldest son of the merchant Enrico di Vannino Beccadelli, who had played an active role in Sicilian politics, serving as Praetor of Palermo in 1393.

He helped his father with his business until he became consumed with enthusiasm for humanistic studies.[1] [May 2007]

Hermaphroditus

Beccadelli is most famous for his bawdy masterpiece Hermaphroditus (1425), a collection of eighty-one Latin epigrams, which evoke the unfettered eroticism of the works of Catullus and Martial, as well as of the Priapea.

This work was greeted with acclaim by scholars but subsequently condemned and censured as obscene by Christian apologists.

  • Amongst those who praised this work was Guarino da Verona, who called Beccadelli a poetic scion of the Sicilian writer of antiquity, Theocritus.
  • Beccadelli's critics included the theologian Antonio da Rho (1395-1447), a Franciscan from Milan, who would write a Philippic against Antonio Panormita (1431/32). Panormita had written invective poetry ridiculing Rho with obscene insults, but he would have to defend not only his work but also his life and morals. Rho discredited and vilified Beccadelli by making allegations about the poet's Sicilian background, orthodoxy, and practice of sexual taboos.


According to one authority, the first book of purely or mainly erotic content to be published in Christian Europe was the "Hermaphrodite" of Antonio Beccadelli, written in 1426. The Latin text was reissued in 1892 with a French translation by Isidore Liseux, the scholarly French publisher of erotica and the literature of love. Beccadelli, who wrote under the name of Panormita, was one of the group of men later called humanist; he modelled much of his work on the writings of the poets of antiquity. Wayland Young suggests that Beccadelli, like Martial, was half fascinated and half disgusted "by women and fucking." --From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records.

Antonio Beccadelli

BECCADELLI, Antonio. – L'Hermaphrodite de Panormita (XVe siècle). Traduit pour la première fois (par Alcide Bonneau) avec le texte latin et un choix des notes de Forberg. Paris, 1892. 8vo. pp. xix+154. Limited to 110 copies. [British Library: Cup.364.m.34.] --Patrick J. Kearney



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