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microrobert
12-14-2011, 08:31 PM
Unrequited Love? 16th-Century Erotic Poem Discovered

Nearly 450 years ago, when England was tearing itself apart over religion, a Catholic woman named Lady Elizabeth Dacre wrote an elegant but at times erotic Latin love poem to Sir Anthony Cooke, a Protestant and tutor to King Edward VI, the successor of Henry VIII.

http://www.livescience.com/17472-16th-century-love-poem-discovered.html