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For many years the identity of the author was a mystery. First attributed to Pietro Aretino , an article in 1888 by Achille Neri finally identified the author as Antonio Rocco, a Libertine priest and philosopher and member of the Accademia Degli Incogniti , founded by Giovan Battista Loredan .

The obscenity of the text is unremandingly explicit, but it has been argued, "it must be understood in the context of similar texts of the trend of Libertinism , using the term in its original sense of a sceptical philosophical tendency."


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  • "Antonio Rocco and the Background of His 'L'Alcibiade fanciullo a Scola' (1652)," ''Among Men, Among Women'', Amsterdam: University, 1983, pp.224-32.