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Maddelena Campiglia is another 16th century female poet who explores the love between women in the 1580s. [29] 1500s – Same-sex desire between women is mentioned in several late 16th century romantic comedies of Italian Renaissance theater, usually in the context of one or more characters secretly cross-dressing as the opposite sex. "I am not ...
Two standard servants opposite a well-dressed, unmasked woman, La Dona Lucretia, who represents innamorata [1]. Innamorati (Italian: [ʎ innamoˈraːti]; lit. ' lovers ') [2] were stock characters within the theatre style known as commedia dell'arte, who appeared in 16th-century Italy.
The relation of the two males is unknown, but one of the researchers from the University of Bologna, Federico Lugli, suggested that rather than lovers they could have been brothers, cousins, or soldiers; he is quoted as saying in Italian, "The burial of two men hand in hand was certainly not a common practice in late antiquity...
Until 1986, "sexual deviance" was a reason for exclusion for military service. At that time, some men claimed to be homosexual to avoid the draft. Lesbians have never been banned from the Italian military since women were first allowed to serve in 2000.
By the end of the Augustan period Ovid, Rome's leading literary figure, was alone among Roman figures in proposing a radically new agenda focused on love between men and women: making love with a woman is more enjoyable, he says, because unlike the forms of same-sex behavior permissible within Roman culture, the pleasure is mutual. [42]
In Italian folklore, the Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve (the night of January 5) in a similar way to Santa Claus or the Three Magi Kings. [182] A popular belief is that her name derives from the Feast of Epiphany ( Italian : Festa dell'Epifania ).
The father of a young woman whose murder galvanized Italian outrage against violence targeting women implored men during her funeral Tuesday in the northern city of Padua to be “agents of change ...
On 31 January 2017, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that a same-sex marriage conducted between two women in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France must be recognized in Italy. The court refused to hear the case of the mayor of Santo Stefano del Sole , who had appealed an earlier sentence passed down from the Naples Court of Appeal that the marriage ...