… together, that you can with difficulty move from one room to another. There always is a greater number of men than women; no lady comes without a gentleman to hand her. This gentleman, who acts the part of Cavaliero Servente, may be her …
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… von Kaunitz, the wife of the Imperial ambassador. 6 Networks of sociability were therefore built by both the men and the women living in Naples long term, and visitors to the area would integrate these networks. Suffering from ill health, … see Ersy Contogouris, ‘Neoclassicism and Camp in Sir William Hamilton’s Naples’, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1850 (vol. 9, no. 1, 2019). In 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte’s armies invaded Naples, Emma and …
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… quality it might have possessed.’ 10 This line of enquiry favours a social approach, through the lens of the men and women who populated the abstract, idealised entity that was the Republic of Letters, and through the study of their … meetings in private residences, along with the sociable conversation practices populated by a select group of men and women of letters. The Urbino colony, founded in 1701, is a prime example of how salon and Arcadia practices overlapped. …
… characteristically begins by highlighting her own role in Thraliana ’s presentation of Johnson: unlike other literary women, Hester had young children, a fact that posed both practical problems and anxieties about the proper role of a …
… XIX e siècle. 14 . Voir Brian Dollan, Ladies of the Grand Tour (London: Harper Collins, 2001), ou encore Sheila Barker, Women Artists in Early Modern Italy: Careers, Fame, and Collectors (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2016). 15 . Anna …