Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789–1914

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots

Chapter 4 Sex in Belli’s Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion

Chapter 5 After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy

Chapter 6 Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries

Chapter 7 Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861–1914

Chapter 8 Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law

Chapter 9 Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three ‘New Women’: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri

Chapter 10 The ‘Italian Vice’: Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy

Chapter 11 John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality

Chapter 12 Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877–1906

Chapter 13 British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789–1844

Chapter 14 The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy