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A Lady's Man: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy (Genders and Sexualities in History)
Roberto Bizzocchi
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Hardcover. 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? Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 7 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 616.
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?
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?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137450920
SKU
V9781137450920
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Ref
99-15
About Roberto Bizzocchi
Roberto Bizzocchi teaches Early Modern History at the University of Pisa, Italy. Among others, he has written In famiglia. Interessi e affetti nell'Italia moderna (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001), and Genealogie incredibili. Scritti di Storia nell'Europa moderna (Bologna, il Mulino, 2009 2nd. ed., French translation: Paris, Editions Rue d'Ulm 2010).
Reviews for A Lady's Man: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy (Genders and Sexualities in History)
“Roberto Bizzocchi’s book, first published in Italian in 2008, is a welcome, first serious study of this most distinctive and puzzling feature of Enlightenment Italy. … reader will be rewarded with a rich, insightful, and beautifully documented treatment of a fascinating phenomenon, long noted but little formally studied.” (P. Renée Baernstein, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 89 (2), June, 2017) ... Read more