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Two sources leave telling traces of tensions in Albrecht Du ̈rer's closest personal relationships. One, a letter that Du ̈rer wrote to Willibald Pirckheimer, preserves for us a shocking and intimate exchange between the two men. Du ̈rer sent the missive from Venice in 1506 and dated it ''about fourteen days after St. Michael's Day,'' which places it in the middle of October. It subsequently remained lost and forgotten for centuries together with other letters and papers behind a secret panel in a Nuremberg house (Figure .1). 1 The subject of the discussion was the artist's wife, Agnes: ''And as for what you wrote-that I should come back soon or you would clyster my wife-I will not allow it because you would braut her to death'' (Vnd als jr schreibt, jch soll pald kumen oder jr wolt mirs weib kristiren, jst ewch vnerlawbt, jr prawt sy den zw thott). 2 To understand the passage, explanations of the verbs used to connote and denote sexual intercourse are necessary. First of all, the verb klistieren, derived from a Greek word meaning ''to clean'' and related to the English noun clyster, was generally used to refer to the administration of either an enema or vaginal douche. As Laurin

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2010

Language

EN