eroticism and decorum

This is the beginnings of my eros and euterpe rough work--at the moment, it's more just notes and jottings than a consistent set of ideas or an argument. The draft is due to the editor at the end of August, but I'd like to finish it earlier so that I can send it to one or two friends for comments.

Introduction:
[Will not say the following, but will say something along the lines of what the thesis and the aims of the paper are.]
This paper explores the implications/significance for music-making of the erotic culture of Cinquecento aademies through examining two particular books: Antonfrancesco Doni's dialogo della musica (1545), and Filippo Azzaiolo's il primo libro de villotte alla padoana detto del fiore (1557). Doni's work is quite well-known to musicologists courtesy of articles by Einstein and Haar. My work differs from theirs in that I seek to understand the appeal of, significance of the bawdy and/or innuendo-laden humour that Haar claims is no longer funny (and he might be right there).

Section 1: Let's talk about sex (baby) - I might just use that as a subheading if I can!
This section will be about the previous academic discourse on sexually explicit or euphemistic texts (categories such as bawdy, pornographic, obscene, erotic), about how they are historically contingent--with a wee bit on the recent usage of pornography (the statement that the repeated showings of the collapsing twin towers was somehow porn; torture porn--would love to ref that bloody irritating ad for Tarantino's Hotel II running on the Guardian website just now). Then summary of Talvacchia on decency, onesta/disonesta. Della Casa on decency in language. Ref to Stras on decency in music.

Section 2: needs a title
Doni's dialogo is ostensibly an account of an amiable evening at the Accademia degli Ortolani (Gardeners) of Piacenza. Doni's academic nickname was 'La semenza' (the seed). Not surprisingly one of their icons was Priapus--god of gardens, fertility and famously blessed with a ginormous member. (Boy, I'm glad I'm not subscribing to blog-associated advertising.) The interlocutors/participants are all male at this first evening. Einstein doesn't mention the sexual humour; at least one reviewer also misses it (Denis Arnold); Haar glosses over it in the revised version of his article (i.e. he only mentions the existence of the double meanings)--his earlier published version lacks any acknowledgement of the double entendre. This results in some amazing misreadings, where Haar determinedly reads the literal meaning of passages that only make sense as double entendres. Important things to mention: playfulness, mockery of academic enterprise (even from beyond the grave).

I need to look at the music sung during the evening to see how that works in terms of double entendres or whatever.
Also need to take into account class, social status etc. What other info is there on the Ortolani?

Section 3: needs a title [Costanti, Rucellai and Azzaiolo I]
This will look at only three songs from the collection. Don't think the madrigals will be relevant.

Section 4: Performing decorum and erotics of performance
Conclusion