September 16th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
C Is For Catholic?
This lustily-illuminated letter C looks as if it might come from the long era when anti-clerical propaganda and lurid pornography were combined in one unified genre throughout the Protestant world:
However, from the “gourari.jpg” filename this image had when I found it, and from some supporting Google results that aren’t quite linkworthy, I suspect that the artist is one Liliane Gourari, whose illustrations appeared in at least one mid-twentieth-century edition of the Marquis de Sade’s “Justine”.
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“C” is for cow whip
“C” is for cracking across the behind
“C” is for “Can I be him?”
Not just in Protestant Europe. The Heptamaron by Margeret of Navarre is similar to the Decamaroon of Bocaccio, with nobles ensconsed in a sealed villa to avoid the Black Plague regale each other with risque stories, many of which include amorous friars and unfaithful nuns. This book, like Bocaccio’s, was written in a devoutly Papist country. Of course, the wicked friar usually comes to a bad end, so I guess its all right.