Schurig, Muliebria, p. 75. Plazzon in 1621 said that in Italian it had a popular name, il besneegio.
Schurig brought together in his Gynæcologia (pp. 2-4) various early opinions concerning the clitoris as the seat of voluptuous feeling.
Hyrtl, Op. cit., vol. ii, p. 193.