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In Italian opera Cavalleria Rusticana, the heroine is excommunicated and ostracized by the village for having an affair. However, also in Italy, the cisisbeo, official lovers of married women you didn't hide from society also existed. How did morals like these co-exist?

by /u/MagnificentCat in /r/AskHistorians

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