Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt.

There is the clueless priest...There are dumb priests...There are many tales about seductive friars and lusty hermits...There is the quack doctor who claims that he can produce children of different types--merchants, soldiers, generals--depending on how far he pushes his cock in...A foolish rustic, bargaining for a soldier, hands his wife over to the scoundrel, but then, thinking himself sly, comes out of hiding and hits the quack's ass to push his cock further in:  "Per Sancta Dei Evangelia," the rustic shouts triumphantly, "hic erit Papa!"  "This one is going to be pope!"
The Facetiae was a huge success.