Vulgar words in Some Forerunners of Italian Opera (Page 1)

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A beautiful young woman, carrying in her arms an infant gorgeously dressed, was mounted on an ass.

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In such conditions the stern ideals of early Christianity were thrust into obscurity and the sensuous charms of a hybrid paganism, a bastard child of ancient Greece and medieval Italy herself, excited the desires of scholars and dilettanti from the lagoons of Venice to the Bay of Naples.

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He says: "The gross jests, which are found in the comedies of our time, and which are their meat rather than the spice, are the reasons why he who says 'Comedy' seems to speak of a buffoon's pastime.

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