Rupert Everett travels in the footsteps of Lord Byron - sex explorer, celebrity, and the original 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' hero of the Romantic movement The museum of pathology of Bologna was founded in 1803 and Luigi Rodati was the curator during Byron’s visit. A water colour portrait of a man with bilateral horse-foot was reported in the inventories antedating 1819. wax models illustrating venereal disease are not reported by Rodati. On the other hand, samples of bone with areas of destruction attributed to syphilis were present since 1815. it is curious that the wax models by Anna Manzolini described by Byron later disappeared. Cardinal Lambertini (Pope Benedict the fourteenth) had specifically prescribed the accurate representation of male and female genitals by wax modelers and that the statues by Lelli had to show a man and a woman in the nude. In particular, the woman had to appear in the nude but prude. In this sense, the restoration of the woman’s arm after the bombing appears to be inaccurate in representing her in a vulgar posture, rather than while covering her genitals with the right hand, as it probably originally was. After the restoration of the papal rule, in 1815, widespread bigotry was observed, and in the state archive of Bologna a document reports that in 1820, a noble man from Bologna visiting the anatomy museum in palazzo Poggi vehemently protested, causing the preparations of two fig leaves in wax apt to cover the genitals of the statues when lay people visited the museum. Maybe, somebody destroyed the male genitals. After Napoleon’s fall, people were frightened by venereal disease, and syphilis was often considered to be the cause of diseases such as leprosy. The boys with leprosy represented there are from the small town of Comacchio, not far from Bologna, and were portrayed after 1830, but the presence of leprosy was known since many years. An example of the attitude to sex is shown by the case of the madman convinced to be the legitimate pope, whose skull and portrait are preserved in the museum. He was very active sexually and had the habit to masturbate publicly. Nevertheless, he considered himsef to be the legitimate pope, and once publicly stated that the Austrian emperor would die in a couple of weeks if he won’t restore him in the holy see. The emperor Franz the I really died. The public masturbation was the main problem however, and the chief of the madhouse, dr. Domenico Gualandi compelled the man to wear very cumbersome leather gloves during his warm baths, very liable to excite him to wank and to use coarse language to women. All that was useless, and poor Gualandi tried to convince him that a pope could not wank publicly because that was a sinful behaviour. The very smart answer of the madman was that a sinful behaviour for common people was not the same for the pope, because he, by doing that, was expiating the sins of the whole mankind.
R. Everett, P. Scarani (2010). The scandalous adventures of lord Byron, documentario televisivo presentato da Channel 4 in gran bretagna, ora in you tube.
The scandalous adventures of lord Byron, documentario televisivo presentato da Channel 4 in gran bretagna, ora in you tube
SCARANI, PAOLO
2010
Abstract
Rupert Everett travels in the footsteps of Lord Byron - sex explorer, celebrity, and the original 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' hero of the Romantic movement The museum of pathology of Bologna was founded in 1803 and Luigi Rodati was the curator during Byron’s visit. A water colour portrait of a man with bilateral horse-foot was reported in the inventories antedating 1819. wax models illustrating venereal disease are not reported by Rodati. On the other hand, samples of bone with areas of destruction attributed to syphilis were present since 1815. it is curious that the wax models by Anna Manzolini described by Byron later disappeared. Cardinal Lambertini (Pope Benedict the fourteenth) had specifically prescribed the accurate representation of male and female genitals by wax modelers and that the statues by Lelli had to show a man and a woman in the nude. In particular, the woman had to appear in the nude but prude. In this sense, the restoration of the woman’s arm after the bombing appears to be inaccurate in representing her in a vulgar posture, rather than while covering her genitals with the right hand, as it probably originally was. After the restoration of the papal rule, in 1815, widespread bigotry was observed, and in the state archive of Bologna a document reports that in 1820, a noble man from Bologna visiting the anatomy museum in palazzo Poggi vehemently protested, causing the preparations of two fig leaves in wax apt to cover the genitals of the statues when lay people visited the museum. Maybe, somebody destroyed the male genitals. After Napoleon’s fall, people were frightened by venereal disease, and syphilis was often considered to be the cause of diseases such as leprosy. The boys with leprosy represented there are from the small town of Comacchio, not far from Bologna, and were portrayed after 1830, but the presence of leprosy was known since many years. An example of the attitude to sex is shown by the case of the madman convinced to be the legitimate pope, whose skull and portrait are preserved in the museum. He was very active sexually and had the habit to masturbate publicly. Nevertheless, he considered himsef to be the legitimate pope, and once publicly stated that the Austrian emperor would die in a couple of weeks if he won’t restore him in the holy see. The emperor Franz the I really died. The public masturbation was the main problem however, and the chief of the madhouse, dr. Domenico Gualandi compelled the man to wear very cumbersome leather gloves during his warm baths, very liable to excite him to wank and to use coarse language to women. All that was useless, and poor Gualandi tried to convince him that a pope could not wank publicly because that was a sinful behaviour. The very smart answer of the madman was that a sinful behaviour for common people was not the same for the pope, because he, by doing that, was expiating the sins of the whole mankind.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
