In 1674 an effort was made at All Souls College, Oxford, using the university press, to prepare an edition of Aretino's "Sonnets", illustrated by Romano's celebrated drawings of coital positions. Alas, it so happened that the Dean appeared unexpectedly - with no less than sixty reproductions already produced. Consideration was given to the possibility of expulsion - "And I think they would deserve it, were they of any other college than All Souls, but there I will allow them to be virtuous that are bawdy only in pictures."