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De figuris Veneris. Manuel d'érotologie classique. Extrême-Orient history of the publications ofThe edition of the Hermaphroditus (1824) by Antonio Beccadelli (1394 1471) by Friedrich Karl Forberg (1770 1848) presents itself as a feast. The "first course" offers the reader a collection of 81 erotic epigrams, a learned pastiche of the crudest pages of Latin literature. The "second course" offers an exposition stuffed with erudition: it is the De figuris Veneris , a reasoned treatise on amorous postures, of which one will find here the first