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A Lady’s Man

The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

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Authors:
  1. Roberto Bizzocchi
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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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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?

Keywords

  • enlightenment
  • Italy
  • marriage
  • society

Reviews

“Roberto Bizzocchi’s book, first published in Italian in 2008, is a welcome, first serious study of this most distinctive and puzzling feature of Enlightenment Italy. … reader will be rewarded with a rich, insightful, and beautifully documented treatment of a fascinating phenomenon, long noted but little formally studied.” (P. Renée Baernstein, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 89 (2), June, 2017)

About the author

Roberto Bizzocchi teaches Early Modern History at the University of Pisa, Italy. Among others, he has written In famiglia. Interessi e affetti nell'Italia moderna (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001), and Genealogie incredibili. Scritti di Storia nell'Europa moderna (Bologna, il Mulino, 2009 2nd. ed., French translation: Paris, Editions Rue d'Ulm 2010).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Lady’s Man

  • Book Subtitle: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

  • Authors: Roberto Bizzocchi

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45092-0Published: 20 November 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

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