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A Lady's Man: The Cicisbei, Private Morals and National Identity in Italy
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Three people in a marriage: a woman and two men. This was the eighteenth-century Italian arisratic 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?