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Liaisons dangereuses : sex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great /

Liaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindemann, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Events and entanglements
  • "Voilà--le spectacle!"
  • A most difficult case
  • A very diplomatic affair
  • Dramatis personae
  • Entr'acte
  • A brave and upright cavalier?
  • A woman of pleasure
  • A real Polish prince, a fake Italian count, and an authentic Spanish hidalgo.