Paolina's innocence : child abuse in Casanova's Venice / Larry Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Larry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franceschini, Gaetano, 1725?---Trials, litigation, etc.

Franceschini, Gaetano.

Lozaro, Paolina, 1777---Trials, litigation, etc.

Lozaro, Paolina.

Lozaro, Paolina, 1777-.

Franceschini, Gaetano, 1725?-.

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

Trials (Child sexual abuse).

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

Child sexual abuse.

Libertinism--Italy--Venice--History--18th century.

Libertinism.

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

Sociological jurisprudence.

History.

Child sexual abuse--Investigation.

Italy--Venice.

Physical Description:

x, 315 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

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 brothel.

Paolina's Innocence considers Franceschini's conduct in the context of the libertinism of Casanova and also employs other prominent contemporaries-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carlo Goldoni, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Cesare Beccaria, and the Marquis de Sade-as points of reference for understanding the case and broader issues of libertinism, sexual crime, childhood, and child abuse in the eighteenth century. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804762618

0804762619

9780804762625

0804762627

OCLC:

760068723