Il vendemiatore

The Resource Il vendemiatore
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Il vendemiatore
Statement of responsibility
del sig. Luigi Tansillo ; per adietro con improprio nome intitolato Stanze di coltura sopra gli horti delle donne
Title variation
  • Stanze di coltura sopra gli horti delle donne
  • Vendemmiatore
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Summary
A licentious, satiric poem in ottava rima, which first appeared in Naples in 1534, and was subsequently issued in several other eds. as "Stanze amorose sopra gli orte della donne;" cf. General biography, or, Lives / composed by John Aiken... and William Johnston. London, 1814, v. 9, p. 315-316.
Cataloging source
CLU
Citation location within source
  • 7:669
  • p. 93
Citation source
  • Dizionario letterario Bompiani
  • Renouard, A.A. Catalogue de la bibliothéque d'un amateur
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Summary expansion
The grape harvest becomes, for Tansillo, the site of a Saturnal, in which the vintagers exchange bawdy jests and double entendres with passersby, including gentlemen and noble ladies. A grape-picker, seated in a tree, offers an invitation to love and voluptuousness to all the women passing by. The poet warns women not to let their youth pass by uselessly, and instructs them on the best way of arriving at the "soave fin d'amore", praising the herb mint which not only drives away witches but is also a restorative in every way. Following the Council of Trent, the poem was placed on the Index for its indecency
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