The School of Whoredom
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Written in sixteenth-century Italy by Pietro Aretino, this dialogue is frank and comic, and is regarded as a pioneering work of European pornographic writing. An older woman, Nanna, decides that her young daughter Pippa must learn about men and love before she enters adult life. Nanna lays out her views on women of different kinds, on how to attract and keep male attention with tact, and above all on the craft of the courtesan. The exchange is full of satire, wordplay and cheeky humour, giving a vivid picture of the life of prostitutes in Renaissance Rome. Aretino, who also wrote plays, poems and letters, is remembered as much for this bold dialogue as for anything else he produced.
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