I delicta carnis come prisma della Modernità penale. Considerazioni per una storia giuridica della sessualità

The History of Criminal Law shows, during the 16th century, a significant turn in a repressive and inquisitorial direction, traditionally interpreted as a consequence of the absolute state and, at the same time, as an instrument of its construction. Sexual crimes became a privileged vantage point for observing the transformations affecting not only law but also culture and society at the beginning of the Modern Age. This article questions the meaning of this aggravation through certain successful historiographical categories.