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Poggio

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, commonly known as Poggio, was a medieval church official, a classical scholar, and a learned Latin writer. Poggio was born in Tuscany in 1380. He received a scholarly education and went into the service of the Roman Curia. Poggio had 14 children with a mistress. Then, at age 56, he married a seventeen-year old girl with whom he had a happy and fruitful marriage. Poggio sought out and collected ancient Latin manuscripts and helped to transmit classical Latin texts to future generations. Moving against millennia of Greek and Latin literature disparaging men’s genitals, Poggio affirmed men’s genitals and men’s sexuality through humane, insightful stories. He exemplified the broad-mindedness of medieval Latin writers, their interest in the classical Latin tradition, and their willingness to transgress gynocentric norms to express men’s distinctive interests. Poggio’s work offers twenty-first-century intellectual life a swerve toward enlightenment that is urgently needed. Poggio died in 1459.

Tiresias’s prophetic knowledge started with Juno and Jove’s dispute

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, transsexual Tiresias affirmed Jove against Juno in finding that women receive more sexual pleasure in heterosexual intercourse. … Read the post Tiresias’s prophetic knowledge started with Juno and Jove’s dispute

not Penelope: sailor’s wife claims God provided him with a son

A medieval sailor much simpler than Odysseus didn’t understand that not all women are like Penelope. He desperately needed God’s help. … Read the post not Penelope: sailor’s wife claims God provided him with a son

sardonic literature necessary complement to romantic medievalism

The medieval poem Le Tumbeor Nostre Dame turned into Anatole France’s story Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame: honoring men’s sexuality became demeaning it. … Read the post sardonic literature necessary complement to romantic medievalism

women’s desire to be on top benefits guileful man selling goose

Overwhelming below women in society, men need medieval Latin learning and guile to deal with women’s desire to be on top. A peasant rose up; so can you. … Read the post women’s desire to be on top benefits guileful man selling goose

folly of chivalry: women don’t want a man for kitchen help

Acting as a woman’s kitchen servant isn’t a way to win her heart or stir her loins. Chivalry is folly. Men must seek useful love knowledge. … Read the post folly of chivalry: women don’t want a man for kitchen help

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