A Lady's Man: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy

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
Published: 11/20/2014
Pages: 7
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137450920

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).