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

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

Hardcover

Series: Genders and Sexualities in History

General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 1137450924
ISBN13: 9781137450920
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 20 2014
Pages: 7
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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?

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