Editing Flea (section)

===In literature and art===
Fleas have appeared in poetry, literature, music and art; these include [[Robert Hooke]]'s drawing of a flea under the [[microscope]] in his pioneering book ''[[Micrographia]]'' published in 1665,<ref>{{cite book |last=Neri |first=Janice |editor1-last=O'Malley |editor1-first=Therese |editor2-last=Meyers |editor2-first=Amy R. W. |title=The Art of Natural History |publisher=National Gallery of Art |date=2008 |pages=83–107 |chapter=Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia |isbn=978-0-300-16024-6}}</ref> poems by Donne and [[Jonathan Swift]], works of music by [[Giorgio Federico Ghedini]] and [[Modest Mussorgsky]], a play by [[Georges Feydeau]], a film by [[Charlie Chaplin]], and paintings by artists such as [[Giuseppe Crespi]], [[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta]], and [[Georges de La Tour]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roncalli |first1=Amici R.|title=La storia della pulce nell'arte e nella letteratura |journal=Parasitologia |date=June 2004 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=15–18 |pmid=15305680 |trans-title=The history of the flea in art and literature|language=it}} See also the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161105032455/http://www.soipa.it/index.php/it/informazioni-joomla/index.php?view=article&catid=47%3Apubblicazioni&id=57%3Ala-storia-della-pulce-nellarte-e-nella-letteratura&format=pdf&option=com_content&Itemid=65&lang=it 2009 version].</ref>

John Donne's erotic metaphysical poem "[[The Flea (poem)|The Flea]]", published in 1633 after his death, uses the [[conceit]] of a flea, which has sucked blood from the male speaker and his female lover, as an extended [[metaphor]] for their sexual relationship. The speaker tries to convince a lady to sleep with him, arguing that if the mingling of their blood in the flea is innocent, then sex would be also.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Black, Joseph |title=The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2 |date=2010 |edition=2nd |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-55481-290-5}}</ref>

The comic poem [[Siphonaptera (poem)|''Siphonaptera'']] was written in 1915 by the mathematician [[Augustus De Morgan]], It describes an infinite chain of parasitism made of ever larger and ever smaller fleas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26408/26408-h/26408-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II), by Augustus de Morgan|website=gutenberg.org|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref>

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File:HookeFlea01.jpg|[[Robert Hooke]]'s drawing of a flea in ''[[Micrographia]]'', 1665
File:The development of the flea from egg to adult Wellcome M0016633.jpg|Development of the flea from egg to adult. [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]], c. 1680
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