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THE ANATOMY LESSON.(The Book of the Prick)(Book Review)
In 1525, Antonio Vignali, a young Sienese nobleman, founded a lofty-minded humanist society that he called, with boyish irreverence, the Academy of the Stunned (Accademia degli Intronati). The commandments of its motto--"Pray, Study, Rejoice, Harm No One, Believe No One"--were honored selectively. The Intronati were an elite cenacle of scholars who shared a devotion to vernacular literature; passionate republicanism tempered by contempt for the common man; flamboyant misogyny qualified by awe for women's supposedly insatiable sexual appetites; hatred of clerical hypocrisy; youthful Weltschmerz; and a fervor for sodomy that, at least in Vignali's case, bordered on the ...
- Homoeroticism in La cazzaria (1525). (Essay).
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Moulton, Ian Frederick July 1, 2003 700+ words
...nobleman from Siena, entitled La cazzaria, or The Book of the Prick (Routledge, 2003). La...allegory and an erotic myth, La cazzaria is also an apologia for sodomy...bawdy. When Vignali wrote La cazzaria, Italy had long been notorious...
- A new manuscript fragment of the Prick of Conscience.(NOTE)
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum Edwards, A.S.G. O'Byrne, Theresa September 22, 2007 700+ words
...leaves. The leaves contain 136 lines of the Prick of Conscience, from parts IV and V, dealing...The remainder of the manuscript of the Prick of Conscience from which our leaves were...a previously unknown manuscript of the Prick of Conscience. They do not correspond...
- Prick from a rose may have killed gardener.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) May 16, 2002 700+ words
A PRICK from a rose thorn may have led to the death...Cotswold coroner Lester Madrell said the thorn prick could not be ruled out as the source of infection...said he could not find any sign of a thorn prick on Mrs Harris's fingers. But, given the...
- 'PRICK UP YOUR EARS': MESMERIZING, ADULT FILM
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jay Carr, Globe Staff May 1, 1987 700+ words
"PRICK UP YOUR EARS" -- Directed by Stephen Frears...sexual frankness, vulgar language). Prick Up Your Ears" is the gay "Amadeus," and...scenes of gross disrespect to a corpse. "Prick Up Your Ears" stumbles from time to time...
- Prick up your ears.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Rafferty, Terrence May 9, 1987 700+ words
Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears is both abiography of and an homage to the English playwright...The better it is as biography, though, the worse it is as homage. Prick Up Your Ears is much too tidy to do justice to the wild, liberating...
- prick
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
...s NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 prick (prik) n. 1. a very small puncture...stiffly erect: said of a dog's ears --prick out (or off) to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes --prick up one's ears 1. to raise the ears with...
- Predictive value is better by skin prick test than specific IgE antibodies.
- Newspaper article from: Immunotherapy Weekly June 4, 2003 700+ words
...net) -- Comparison of the RAST and skin prick tests in terms of predicting hay fever...shows more positive results, the skin prick test is a better predictor. According...specific IgE antibodies (RAST) and skin prick test (SPT) with respect to hay fever...
- a less painful prick for diabetics; Oh, what a tangled Web scam; History...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Folkers, Mary Brophy Marcus Anna Mulrine Richard January 25, 1999 700+ words
HEALTH A less painful prick for diabetics Fingertip sticks to draw...in one end of the pocket-size meter pricks the forearm, upper arm, or thigh...worn like a wristwatch, requires one prick for calibration, then emits a periodic...
