Abstract
This chapter focuses on two particularly suggestive aspects of society and the sexes in early modern Venice: space and life status (regular or irregular marriage, concubinage, widowhood, lay singlehood, and religious profession). It begins by sampling a platter of cicheti prepared in the early 17th century by an English chef. To highlight the distinctive features of Venetian society, many scholars have drawn on published writings by foreign tourists. Like all transalpine visitors, Coryate paid particular attention to matters Venetian that struck him as exotic. In the Venetian Republic, as everywhere else in early modern Europe, all professed nuns came from the elite. The social range of professed monks, friars, and other male religious was somewhat broader. The author concludes that the chapter shall stimulate scholars to explore other ways in which the experiences of men and women, elite and non-elite, occasionally converged and more often diverged. Keywords: Coryate; life status; sexes; Venetian republic; Venetian society
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