Genders and Sexualities in History: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

Bizzocchi, Roberto

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-11-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137450920

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Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

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