Books about extreme opulence and decadence in 1500's-1700's nobility
Is pic related what I'm looking for?
Just read picture of dorian gray and call it a day
>>9735756
Mitford's good, and Huxley has two around that period too (Grey Eminence and Devils of Loudon)
If you want something slightly earlier and first hand Book of Holy Doctors (Livre de seyntz medicines) by Henry Grosmont, Something bang in the middle and baroque, 2nd Earl of Rochester, though that's less detailed and more designed to shock. For something more judgy and with (slightly) less dicks, you could hit up Candide which takes more off the church aristocracy like Huxley.
I guess you could read Fielding too but that has a lot of poverty alongside whores.
>>9735756
Against Nature by Huysmans.
>>9735756
Just started reading this one, but it looks promising OP