Manual of classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris) PDF
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1®Ml HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY. E5i*r/^W MANUAL OF Classical Erotology (DefigurisVeneris) FRED.CHAS. FORBERG S-V-5 LITERALENGLISHVERSION. MANCHESTER One Hundred-Copies PRIVATELYPRINTEDFORVISCOUNT JULIANSMITHSONM.A.,ANDFRIENDS 1884 DigitizedbyGoogle /1harvard\ UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEP 4 1963 NOTE OneHundredCopiesonlyofthisvolumehavebeen printed(allonthesamepaperandthetypedistributed) forViscountJulianSmithsonM.A.,theTranslator, andhisFriends. NoneoftheseCopiesareforSale. DigitizedbyGoogle Foreword Itisperhapswelltostateatoncethatthe “ManualofClassicalErotology”isintended only for Students of the Classics, Lawyers, PsychologistsandMedicalMen. Thoseper- sons,wethink,whomayperuseitasameans of awakening voluptuous sensations will be severely disappointed. Never did a work moreseriousissuefromthepress. Herewe havenocuriouseroticstorybornofadiseased mind,butacold, relentlessanalysisofthose humanpassionswhichitisevertheobjectof Sciencetowrestlewithandoverthrow. Asabasisalsoforthecorrectinterpretation ofthedramaoftheancientworld,Forberg’s n FOREWORD studiesaremostvaluable. Apartfromthat extraordinarybook, Rosenbaum’sHistoryof theEsotericHabits,BeliefsandCustomsof Antiquity,weknowofnoothercompilation which casts so intense a search-light upon thoseCrimes,Folliesand Perversionsofthe “Sixth Sense” which transformed the olden gloryofGreeceandRomeintoaby-wordand areproachamongstthenations. ThepresentEnglishtranslationnowoffered toScholarsisentirelynewandstrictlyexact. Nolibertieshavebeentakenwiththetext. It wasfeltthatanyattempt—toaddmorecolour, ortoincreasetheeffect, involvingadepart- ure from the lines—of stern simplicity laid down by Forberg, would have detracted fromthescientificvalueandcharacterofthe work. The late Isidore Liseux issued in 1882 a FrenchversionwithLatintextimprimeacent exemplaires“forhimselfandfriends”. This workisnowveryseldomtobemetwithbe- cause the whole edition was privately sub- scribed by Scholars and Bibliophilesbefore itsappearance. Thethievingcopyistswentof courseimmediatelytoworkandsomewretch- DigitizedbyGoogle FOREWORD ni ed penny-a-liner, utterly ignorant of both LatinandGreek,producedanEnglishtran- scriptfulloffaults,basedonlyontheFrench text. Thereisnoneedtoaddthatsuchabookas thisisofnovaluetotheStudentasaworkof reference,forthefaultyandforcelessrender- ingsoftentobemetwithin Liseux’version are reproduced with charming exactness, whiletheabsenceoftheoriginaltextmakesit allthemoreperiloustoaccepttheworkasa guide. Havingsaidthismuchconcerningthe onlytwotranslationsknowntous,weproceed togivesomeaccountofgoodmasterForberg andwhatisknownoftheinceptionandbuild- ingupofhischef-d’oeuvre. TheeminentAuthorofthisbookneverbe- came famous. Hisname ismentionedocca- sionallyinconnexionwiththe“Hermaphro- ditus”ofAntonio Beccadelli,knownbythe surname of Panormitanus, whichheedited. Brunet, Charles Nodier, and the Bibliog- raphiedesOuvragesrelatifsauxFemmes,a l’AmouretauMariage,speakofhiminthis connexion;whilealistofhisworksappears moreoverintheIndexLocupletissimusLibro- DigitizedbyGoogle IV FOREWORD rum or Biicher-Lexicon (Bibliographical Lexicon) ofChristianGottlobKayser,Leip- zig,1834. ButwiththeexceptionoftheAll- gemeineDeutsche Biographie, the publica- tionofwhichwascommencedin1878bythe Historical Commissionofthe MunichAca- demy,andwhichhasdevotedashortnoticeto him,allDictionariesandCollectionswhether ofAncientorofModernBiographyaremute withrespecttohim. TheConversations-Lexi- conandthevastEncyclopaediaofErschand Gruberdonotcontainasinglelineabouthim, whileMichaud, Didot, Bacheletand Dezo- bry,Bouillet,Vapereau,utterlyignorehisex- istence. Forallthathewelldeservesaword ortwo. Friedrich Karl Forberg was born in the year 1770 at Meuselwitz, in the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, and died in 1848 at Hild- burghausen. Hewasaphilosopherandacol- laboratorwithFichte,whilehedevotedapart ofhisattentiontoreligiousexegesis:butab—ove allhewasaphilologian,andahumanist, at oncelearnedandinquisitive.Hefollowedfirst the career of a University-teacher; Privat- docentin1792,AssistantProfessorintheFac- DigitizedbyGoogle FOREWORD V ulty of PhilosophyatJena (1793), he was installedin1796asCo-RectoratSaalfeld.His inaugural thesis: “Dissertatioinauguralisde aesthetica transcendentali”, is dated 1792 i(sJeenoan,8tvhoe.)Or;itghiinsawlasCofnodliltoiwoendsbaynda“FTorremaatl- LimitationsofFreeWill”inGermanandan “ExtractfrommyOccasionalWritings”also inGerman (1795). From 1796to 1800he wroteextensivelyindefenceoftheteachings of FichteinJournals, Reviews, particularly in the Philosophical Magazine of Schmidt, and in sundry publications emanating from Fichte himself. He published moreover: “AnimadversionesinlocaselectaNoviTesta- menti” (Saalfeld, 1798, 4to.), “an Apology for his pretended Atheism”, in German (Gotha,1799,8vo.). “ObligationsofLearned Men”,inGerman (Gotha,1801,8vo.),etc. Thesecondpartof his lifeseemstohave beendevotedentirelytoLiterature. In 1807 hewasappointedasConservatoroftheAulic LibraryatCoburg,andhavinghadenoughof philosophy,heturnedhiswholeattentionto thestudyofLatinandGreekantiquity. Pre- viouslytothishistasteshadalreadybeenre- DigitizedbyGoogle
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