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A lady's man : the cicisbei, private morals and national identity in Italy /

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 official escort of another man's wife. Did this delineate a clear and brazen sexual depravity or rather a complex and refin...

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Main Author: Bizzocchi, Roberto, 1953- (Author)
Other Authors: Mazhar, Noor Giovanni (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Genders and sexualities in history.
Subjects:
Italy > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Italy > Social conditions > 18th century.
Man-woman relationships > Italy > History > 18th century.
Marriage > Italy > History > 18th century.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Italy > History > 18th century.
Political culture > Italy > History > 18th century.
Italy > Moral conditions > History > 18th century.
Italy > Politics and government > 18th century.
National characteristics, Italian > History > 18th century.
Nationalism > Italy > History > 18th century.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.

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