The life and legend of Catterina Vizzani : sexual identity, science and sensationalism in eighteenth-century Italy and England /

From the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man. Fleeing Rome to avoid a potential trial for sexual misdeeds, she became Giovanni Bordoni, transitioning and becoming a male in spirit, deed, and body, through what was the...

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Main Author: Donato, Clorinda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2020]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2020:10.
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Call Number: HQ77.8.V58 D66 2020
 
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