{"pk":40634,"title":"Culiseo\n: the Roman Colosseum in Early Modern Jest","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Mirabilia literature of the high and later Middle Ages portrayed the Colosseum in Rome as a lofty, celestial building.  As the amphitheater declined, from a lively village in the twelfth century to an abandoned wasteland in the fifteenth, these descriptions became ever more elaborate and magical, reaching an apex in the Trecento.  Starting with the poetry of the Florentine barber-poet Burchiello in the first half of the Quattrocento, however, and above all during the 1520s and 1530s, when Burchiello had many admirers and imitators, comic and satirical writers -- particularly Tuscans (Vignali, Aretino, Berni, Bronzino, Cellini) -- made the 'Culiseo' a synonym for \"backside” and the butt of countless sodomitic and scatological jokes. Rome's most notable antiquity, which for the Middle Ages had been a consummate symbol of Rome as caput mundi, was thus reconceived in comic terms as a giant backside, a culo, and as a venue for sodomy.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Colosseum, Mirabilia, Burchiello, Antonio Vignali, Pietro Aretino, Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Pasquinade, sodomy, Medieval Rome, Renaissance Rome, queer studies, Renaissance poetry"}],"section":"Roman Antiquity and Antiquarianism","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40s8d6sq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lila","middle_name":"Elizabeth","last_name":"Yawn","name_suffix":"","institution":"Other","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-11-02T13:50:40+08:00","date_accepted":"2015-11-02T13:50:40+08:00","date_published":"2016-12-15T06:43:23+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40634/galley/30509/download/"}]}