A Lady's Man: The Cicisbei, Private Morals And National Identity In Italy (Genders And Sexualities In History)

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?

• • Author: Roberto Bizzocchi
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Nov 20, 2014
• • Number of Pages: NA pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137450924
• • ISBN-13: 9781137450920