Antonio Rocco
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Antonio Rocco (1586-1653) was an Italian libertine philosophy teacher (he graduated under Cesare Cremonini), and a writer, a member of the Incogniti. Ever since 1888 when he was identified as its anonymous author, he is best known for his pederastic text, L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola, written in 1630 and published in 1652.
The work was immediately suppressed, and only ten copies survived the attempts to destroy the whole print run. The survival of the work led to, in 1862, to its translation and publishing in Itanlian. Again the work elicited immediate condemnation. It was denounced by the police as a liber spurcissimus (a most filthy book) and largely destroyed.
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Della bruttezza; Amore è un puro interesse In “On Ugliness,” Rocco equated the ugly with hell and the beautiful with heaven and then reverses them.
