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Author Wolff, Larry

Title Paolina's Innocence : Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents 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
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. Pao
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Franceschini, Gaetano, 1725?- -- Trials, litigation, etc
Lozaro, Paolina, 1777- -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Franceschini, Gaetano, 1725?- fast
Lozaro, Paolina, 1777- fast
Subject Child sexual abuse -- Investigation -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century
Libertinism -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century
Sociological jurisprudence -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century
Trials (Child sexual abuse) -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century
Child sexual abuse -- Investigation
Libertinism
Sociological jurisprudence
Trials (Child sexual abuse)
Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011045204
ISBN 9780804782104
0804782105