Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice [electronic resource] : the disease that came to stay / Laura J. McGough.
This provocative book questions the assumption that syphilis (the 'French disease') became widespread in Venice because of its legendary courtesans. Using new evidence, Laura McGough reconstructs the city's sexual networks, revealing a society where sexual relations linked people of d...
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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RC201.4 .M34 2010
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