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Venice Incognito : Masks in the Serene Republic /
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The carnival of Venice. Casanova's carnival
- New world
- Even odds
- Blood sport
- Fat Thursday
- Anything Goes?
- The culture of masking. City of masks
- Infernal associations
- Devil's dance
- Unmasking the heart
- Age of dissimulation
- The honest mask. Legislating morality
- Saving face
- Venetian incognito
- Democratizing dress
- Taming the devil
- Carnival and community. Redeemed by the blood
- Carnival tales
- The mask of sincerity
- Carnival contained
- Bitter ash
- Epilogue: After the fall.