"The five numbers of the Wandring whore appeared during 1660 and 1661. John Garfield, the publisher and probably the author, seized the opportunity presented by the licentiousness of the Restoration to exploit the reputation of Pietro Aretino’s La puttante errante, notorious for its illustration of thirty-five erotic postures. Like most of the literature of this genre the Wandring whore takes a conversational form, two of the participants, Magdalena, the old bawd, and Julietta, a young whore, echoing Aretino’s model. ... Following a tradition ... the Wandring whore relates anecdotes of roguery and includes vignettes of lascivious practices, as usual ostensibly describing foreign manners — Julietta is Venetian — and excusing itself by the pretence of exposing them. ... The work abounds in Rabelaisian humour, using puns and innuendo in describing sexual activities, its language is thick with contemporary military and naval metaphor....."
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