The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

Women in Culture and Society

Margaret F. Rosenthal

408 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta--the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offer...

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