A Contagion at the Source of Discourse on Sexualities: Syphilis during the French Renaissance

Abstract

Syphilis appeared in the medical, historical and literary discourse of the French Renaissance as suddenly as the disease itself. During the sixteenth century, discourse on syphilis took on various, colourful and carnivalesque guises, before finding discipline and continuing its odyssey with moral commentary. One must await the libertines and the beginning of the seventeenth century before syphilis wears another mask, that of the baroque image and of ‘satyre’.

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