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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462254503321

Autore

Wolff Larry

Titolo

Paolina's innocence [[electronic resource] ] : child abuse in Casanova's Venice / / Larry Wolff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8210-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

2011045204

Soggetti

Trials (Child sexual abuse) - Italy - Venice - History - 18th century

Child sexual abuse - Investigation - Italy - Venice - History - 18th century

Libertinism - Italy - Venice - History - 18th century

Sociological jurisprudence - Italy - Venice - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: The Secret Denunciation; Chapter 1:The Parish Priest; Chapter 2:The Blasphemy Tribunal; Chapter 3: A Stroke of Providence; Chapter 4: Sexual Criminals and Young Girls; Chapter 5: The Housekeeper's Dilemma; Part 2: Upstairs from the Coffeehouse; Chapter 6: The Caffettiere in His Coffeehouse; Chapter 7: Coffee and Gossip; Chapter 8: Friulians in Venice; Chapter 9: Inside Franceschini's Apartment; Chapter 10: The Dalmatian Widow; Part 3: The Libertine; Chapter 11: The Interrogation of Franceschini; Chapter 12: Casanova's Girls

Chapter 13: The Scandal of FranceschiniChapter 14: Child Pornography and the Marquis de Sade; Chapter 15: The Freedom of the Libertine; Part 4: The Innocence of Childhood; Chapter 16: Rousseau's Simple Project; Chapter 17: Paolina Lozaro in Her Own Words; Chapter 18: Paolina Lozaro in the History of Childho; Chapter 19: The Chimera of Innocence; Chapter 20: The Secret History of Sexual Abuse; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 largely undocumented, and the concept of ""child abuse"" did not yet exist. The case of Paolina Lozaro and Gaetano Franceschini came before Venice's unusual blasphemy tribunal, the Bestemmia, which heard testimony from an entire neighborhood-from the parish priest to the madam of the local broth