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Venice has always been accommodating sexually, catering to all tastes, like the great hotel it is, with signs in French, German, English, and Italian (‘Petit déjeuner ,’ ‘Frühstück ,’ ‘Breakfast ,’ ‘Prima colazione ’) advertising the mixture-as-before. The Italian institution of the cicisbeo (sometimes a lover, sometimes a gigolo, sometimes a mere escort, to a married woman) was perfected, if not invented, in Venice. Here again was Venetian rationality . . . . McCarthy, Mary. Venice Observed (p. 103). Warbler Classics. Kindle Edition. |
Update of 8:09 AM EDT Sunday, July 21, 2024 — In context . . .
