lust-excitation

Updated: July 6, 2025

The diarist Infessura, who was not there, takes it upon himself to describe the comedy as ``lascivious. Lascivious the comedies of the time commonly were, but later writers, instead of drawing their ideas from the eyewitness, prefer the dark hints of Infessura, and are persuaded that the comedy, the whole festivity, was ``obscene. Hence arises the notion, so popular, that the second Borgia Pope delighted in shows which anticipated those of the Folies Bergere, or which surpassed the danse du ventre in lust-excitation.

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