A Lady’s Man : The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

Bizzocchi, Roberto

Genders and Sexualities in History

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Three people in a marriage: a woman and two men. This was the eighteenth-century Italian aristocratic model of marriage, characterized by the presence of the cicisbeo, the escort of another man's wife. Was it a brazen depravity or a complex and refined social institution, revealing aspects of Italian civilization in the Age of the Enlightenment?

Utgivelsesdato:

20.11.2014
ISBN/Varenr:

9781137450920
Språk:

, Engelsk
Forlag:

Palgrave Macmillan
Fagtema:

Historie og arkeologi
Litteraturtype:

Faglitteratur
Sider:

294
Høyde:

24.1 cm
Bredde:

15.8 cm