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Plotting Social Hierarchies in the Renaissance - HTAV

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Both Marg<strong>in</strong>alised and Integral<br />

“[Sexual debauchery has] ru<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>the</strong> world, ...<br />

corrupted men <strong>in</strong> lust, led women <strong>in</strong>to <strong>in</strong>decency,<br />

and boys <strong>in</strong>to sodomy and filth, and made <strong>the</strong>m<br />

like prostitutes... Young lads have been made<br />

<strong>in</strong>to women. But that‟s not all: fa<strong>the</strong>rs are like<br />

daughters, bro<strong>the</strong>rs like sisters. There‟s no<br />

dist<strong>in</strong>ction between <strong>the</strong> sexes or anyth<strong>in</strong>g else<br />

anymore.” – Girolamo Savonarola, 1496.<br />

Savonarola preach<strong>in</strong>g. Compendio di<br />

Revelatione, Florence,1496<br />

Dante, Inferno XV, Pisan manuscript, c.1345.

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