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Paolina's Innocence : Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice /

In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolff, Larry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The parish priest in the church of Sant'Angelo
  • The blasphemy tribunal
  • A stroke of providence
  • Sexual criminals and young girls
  • The housekeeper's dilemma
  • The caffetiere in his coffee house
  • Coffee and gossip
  • Friulians in Venice
  • Inside Franceschini's apartment
  • The Dalmatian widow
  • The interrogation of Franceschini
  • Casanova's girls
  • The scandal of Franceschini
  • Child pornography and the Marquis de Sade
  • The freedom of the libertine
  • Rousseau's simple project
  • Paolina Lozaro in her own words
  • Paolina Lozaro in the history of childhood
  • The chimera of innocence
  • The secret history of sexual abuse.