Lady’s Man

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).

• 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

“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)