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...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Genders and sexualities in history
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| Schlagworte: | Man-woman relationships Marriage Aristocracy (Social class) Political culture National characteristics, Italian Nationalism HISTORY SOCIAL SCIENCE LITERARY CRITICISM Italien mehr... |
| Umfang: | VII, 294 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Introduction: Who were the Cicisbei?2. In the World of Enlightenment
- 3. In the Eighteenth-Century Society
- 4. The Geopolitics of Cicisbeism
- 5. The Erotic Implications of Cicisbeism
- 6. The Cicisbei Banned.