"A pensive nun": lettura dei "Pensieri medico-morali" Di paolo Sarpi

• Autores: Vittorio Frajese
• Localización: Quaderni storici, ISSN 0301-6307, Anno 53, Nº 158, 2, 2018, págs. 571-597
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • "A pensive Nun". Reading of Paolo Sarpi's Pensieri medico-morali The article is dedicated to the decryption of a private Paolo Sarpi's writing, kept in Palazzo Donà dalle Rose: the Pensieri medico-morali. The writing looks like a moral instruction given to someone and presents great hemeneutical difficulties. Vittorio Frajese interprets the text as anhomosexual point of view in moral philosophy. The authors starts from this point to outline some fragments of the homophile network which Sarpi was part of and its impact on the administration of justice in Venice. In the first half of the seventeenth century, this administration experienced a substantial decriminalization of sosomy