A Lady’s Man
The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:20th Nov '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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?
“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)
ISBN: 9781137450920
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 5797g