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Italy's Eighteenth Century - Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Hardcover, New)
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Italy's Eighteenth Century - Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Hardcover, New)
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In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk
at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafes, attend the
opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also
marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in
which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as "cicisbei,"
and dandified Englishmen became "macaroni," Italy was perceived to
be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding
female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and
the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and
universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder
whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were
stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that
was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the
social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by
exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature,
science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the
Grand Tour.
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