Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice written by L. McGough and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.