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A lyrically written, sensual, and extraordinarily enjoyable novel in which a Renaissance anatomist's astonishing discovery forever changes the female erotic universe.
In sixteenth-centruy Venice, celebrated physician Mateo Colombo finds himself behind bars at the behest of the Church authorities. His is a crime of disclosure, heinous and heretical in the Church's eyes, in that his research threatens to subvert the whole secular order of Renaissance society. Like his namesake Christopher Colombus, he has made a discovery of enormous significance for humankind. Whereas Colombus voyaged outward to explore the world and found the Americas, Mateo Colombo looked inward, across the mons veneris, and uncovered the clitoris. Based on historical fact, The Anatomist is an utterly fascinating excursion into Renaissance Italy, as evocative of time and place as the work of Umberto Eco, and reminiscent of the earthy sensuality of Gabriel García Márquez. Perceptive and stirring, it ironically exposes not only the social hypocracies of the day, but also the prejudices and sexual taboos that may still be with us four hundred years later.
- Sales Rank: #1613766 in Books
- Published on: 1999-09-14
- Released on: 1999-09-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.97" h x .58" w x 5.10" l, .43 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 228 pages
Amazon.com Review
"O my America, my new-found-land!" Mateo Renaldo Colombo (or Columbus, to give him his English name) might have written in his De re anatomica."
It is no accident that Federico Andahazi draws a parallel between his Renaissance hero, the anatomist Mateo Colombo, and the explorer Christopher Columbus. It is the conceit of his first novel, The Anatomist (beautifully translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel), that both Colombos made "equally momentous and disturbing" discoveries. Every schoolchild can tell you what Columbus's was; less well known, perhaps, is that of his countryman and fellow "explorer." "Mateo's America is less distant and infinitely smaller than Christopher's; in fact, it's not much larger than the head of a nail." In short, Mateo Renaldo Colombo discovered the Amor Veneris, the clitoris.
Andahazi makes much of this discovery, not to mention its discoverer: "The discovery of Mateo Colombo's America was, all things considered, an epic counterpointed by an elegy. Mateo Colombo was as fierce and heartless as Christopher. Like Christopher (to use an appropriate metaphor) he was a brutal colonizer who claimed for himself all rights to the discovered land, the female body." Certainly women readers will view this description with at least as much irony as Native Americans regard that other Columbus's "discovery" of a land they had known about all along.
The Anatomist is based on a historical figure and historical fact; what Andahazi provides is his title character's heart and soul. The fictional Colombo is driven by desire for the high-priced courtesan Mona Sofia. Though Mateo adores her, the heartless Sofia regards him as nothing more than a paying customer. After breaking both his heart and his bank account over her, Colombo returns to his native Padua whence he is eventually called to Florence to treat a saintly young widow, In�s de Torremolinos. In�s is "infinitely beautiful," and her illness is "far from common." While examining her, he discovers "between his patient's legs a perfectly formed, erect and diminutive penis." Land ho.
Though Colombo's "discovery," first in In�s and then in other women, offers plenty of opportunity for eroticism, the most compelling aspect of The Anatomist lies in the Church's reaction to De re anatomica, the book Colombo writes detailing his find. The Renaissance may well have signaled the birth of new art, science, and philosophy, but it was also the age of Inquisition--and Colombo's unfolding of "the key to the heart of all women ... the anatomical cause of love" soon lands him in prison on charges of heresy and Satanism. The trial, Mateo's defense, and the surprising aftermath make for provocative reading and raise The Anatomist above the level of the merely erotic to a more intriguing philosophical plane, one that is sure to prompt a lively discussion or two. --Alix Wilber
From Library Journal
Matteo Colombo of Padua, capable of rendering the most exquisite anatomical charts and who is in fact the most famous anatomist in Europe, is a Renaissance man infused with the spirit of Leonardo. The dissection of cadavers has long been forbidden by the Church, but it is not for this heresy that Matteo is hounded by the Inquisition. Much as the hands of a musician caress an instrument, his anatomist's hands have learned the magic of roaming a woman's body and, just as his namesake, Cristoforo Colombo, discovered America, Matteo discovers the small erectile organ hidden behind the fleshy labia that is today called the clitoris. And it is for this "crime" that he is imprisoned. Based on the actual historical case, this captivating first novel by a Buenos Aires psychiatrist is unexpectedly light, ironic, sensual, evocative of its era, and a pleasure to read. Recommended for all libraries.
-?Jack Shreve, Allegany Coll. of Maryland, Cumberland
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Argentinian short story writer Andahazi brings his flair for satire to his first novel, an arch improvisation on the life of an actual Italian Renaissance physician. Andahazi's Mateo Colombo, or Columbus, is, like his namesake, an explorer, but his discovery is on a very human scale. To be precise, his America is the Amor Veneris, the "organ that governs the love of women." Yes, this intrepid anatomist happens upon the clitoris and cannot believe his good fortune. He conducts in-depth research with a number of willing prostitutes until rumors begin to fly, and his enemies at the university report him to the authorities. Placed under house arrest in anticipation of his trial for heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and satanism, he pines for his true love, the most beautiful and scornful whore in all of Italy. Meanwhile, the woman who led him to the promised spot, a pious and philanthropic young widow living in Florence, is praying for his return. Andahazi flirts with the conventions of tragedy, but parody rules, especially when Colombo mollifies his accusers over the course of his pseudoscholarly self-defense by assuring them that women have no soul. Stylistically on a par with Umberto Eco, albeit in a burlesque mode, Andahazi succeeds in exposing the hypocrisy of those inquisitional times, and his novel is definitely a cut above most on the best-seller lists, where it landed after arousing great controversy in Argentina, but it nonetheless rings hollow, eliciting laughter more queasy than jolly. Donna Seaman
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Neither Fish nor Fowl
By Jane Brodsky
I much enjoyed the book and read it at one sitting. As others have noted, the author is clearly familiar with the subject, and has done plenty of research, and has peppered the text with enough Italian phrases to make you almost feel at home in the plot. Written in a style that aspires to be literary, philosophical, as well as befitting the period, the novel fails to move the reader and feel for the characters who are as flat as a board. Five for research and style and one for writing a compelling as well as historically founded plot. There you go, a plain three stars!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
worthy but short of excellent
By A Customer
Personal Review of 'The Anatomist' ______________________ Robert Wolf, Charlottesville, VA USA
After learning of the impending release of this book on N.P.R. news, I was quite intrigued and amused by the premise. I also was attracted by the fact that the story scandalized the fragile sensibilities of a present day nation at the dawn of the 21st century. (Any issues focusing too overtly on the body still can, it seems)
I enjoyed this book in one evening, though it struck me as more a fleshed out short story than a, well, full bodied historical novel. I was moderately connected to the characters, but only "by half" as the British like to say. Of course, there were no truly sympathetic characters in the story after one get's to know the basics of their persona. (The crow was perhaps the most genuine and lovable character I thought, second only to Lorena Bobbit's young patron saint.) Maybe I missed knowing more of these character's deeper motivations and enough background to appreciate them better.
The portrayal of combined ignorance of the processes of the physical world was fairly shocking when mixed with the the self indulgent suppositions that passed for placing new shreds of evidence into some comfortable perspective. It drives home Anais' eternal observation that "we don't see the world as it is, we see it as WE are."
I think the dry misogynist courtroom scenes were effective farce which reflected well into corrosive gender attitudes that persist to the present day. They did make me start to root for the executioner, however.
I found it slightly unbelievable that NOBODY on any corner of the planet had noticed the nerve bundle at the center of this story prior to the 16th European century, weather by exploration of their own territorial waters or of other's distant shores... Perhaps the neglected issue was more due to a lack a means of dissemination than an actual oversight by the entire the human species to date. So much for the 'oral tradition'.
Perhaps the only real winner's in this story were the opportunistic venereal microbes who seemed to cruise through their happy lives undisturbed by the vicious, threatened institutions of the era or even the flaccid efforts of 16th century 'medicine'. Not all that much HAS changed after all.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Masterly done, tempting beyond its cover
By A Customer
Somewhere halfway through, I could not help thinking that this was nothing but one more glorifying repackaging of Rennaisance alchemic sophistry; more fodder against the monopoly on knowledge of the Catholic Church and the effective extermination by auto-da-fe of minds that dared even a slight deviation from its preachings.
To understand in what ways this is much more than that, one needs to read it to the last page. The most intriguing aspect of it, is the triangle formed by Matteo Colombo, the anatomist, Ines de Torremolinos, the pious Florentine widow and Mona Sofia, the classy Venetian prostitute--and what became of each at the end.
Boludo is an Argentine word literally meaning "chutzpah" but also describes an "idiot" in liberal interpretation. Well, this is a boludo book in a literal sense...
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