Roberto Bizzocchi

A Lady's Man

The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Genders and Sexualities in History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-45092-0
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 7
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781137450920
• ISBN-10: 1137450924
• Artikelnr.: 41200232

Autorenporträt

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).

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

Rezensionen

"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)