Les libertinages de Beata Julia
It is impossible to know if Louis Machon wrote, or rewrote, the Beata Julia historiette that occupies two pages of chapter 7 in the second part of his Apologie de Machiavel. In 1615, the heroine, a Franciscan tertiary from Naples, was condemned by the Holy Office to a life-sentence in prison for fal...
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| Language: | fra |
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Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Les Dossiers du GRIHL |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/6172 |
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| Summary: | It is impossible to know if Louis Machon wrote, or rewrote, the Beata Julia historiette that occupies two pages of chapter 7 in the second part of his Apologie de Machiavel. In 1615, the heroine, a Franciscan tertiary from Naples, was condemned by the Holy Office to a life-sentence in prison for false sainthood and moral libertinism. Machon uses this affair to construct, in unison, a moral and an atheist libertinism that combines duplicity, sexual depravation and subversive theology. The most interesting elements of the historiette lie in the fabrication of a libertine pastiche in which a fake nun passes, through her discourse, ideas and thoughts derived from blasphemous literature. We can thus see that for Machon, the case of Beata Julia is at once a good example of the power of duplicity and an opportunity to establish, in tandem with the reader, an all-together extraordinary humor. |
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| ISSN: | 1958-9247 |