LEADER 03432oam 22005534a 450 001 9910817646803321 005 20231019200127.0 010 $a0-8018-8920-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000482200 035 $a(EBL)3318314 035 $a(OCoLC)923193453 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191725 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156548 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191725 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10185751 035 $a(PQKB)10400132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318314 035 $a(OCoLC)213305593 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318314 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188515 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000482200 100 $a20050624d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLiaisons dangereuses $esex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great /$fMary Lindemann 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 353 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8018-8317-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-342) and index. 327 $aPrologue -- Events and entanglements -- "Voila?--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. 330 $aLiaisons 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 Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz. Reconstructing the drama from the perspectives of four principal players - the count, the baron, an Italian/French courtesan, Anna Maria Romellini, and Antoine Ventura de Sanpelayo, the Spanish consul in Hamburg - Lindemann explores the historical currents that swept these individuals together and the effects of their encounter on Hamburg's public, its government, and its diplomatic and economic relationships with European courts and states. Lindemann profiles each person involved in the crime, exploring their lives as unique sets of circumstances while analyzing them as eighteenth-century types. What actually took place on that fateful night in October 1775? All Hamburg buzzed with rumors, but it is impossible to determine without doubt the motives of those involved, or even to know what really happened. Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century. 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zGermany$zHamburg$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aHamburg (Germany)$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y18th century 615 0$aTrials (Murder)$xHistory 676 $a943/.515057 700 $aLindemann$b Mary$0537705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817646803321 996 $aLiaisons dangereuses$93970745 997 $aUNINA