Shamelessness

Definition and stakes

conte Baldassarre Castiglione,  The Book of the Courtier (1901)

“ And if you say they do it from shame, methinks that in place of a single virtue you give them two; for if shame is stronger in them than appetite and they for that reason abstain from evil acts, I think that this shame (which in short is nothing else but fear of infamy) is a very rare virtue and one possessed by very few men. And if I could, without infinite disgrace to men, tell how many of them are plunged in shamelessness (which is the vice opposed to this virtue) , I should pollute these chaste ears that hear me. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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