The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice

The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice /

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 offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a pl...

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Main Author: Rosenthal, Margaret F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992
Series:Women in culture and society.
Subjects:
Franco, Veronica, > 1546-1591.
Courtesans > Italy > Biography.
Authors, Italian > 16th century > Biography.
Venice (Italy) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Catharine R. Stimpson
  • 1. Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies
  • 2. Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons
  • Appendix: Two Testaments and a Tax Report
  • 3. Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters
  • 4. Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate
  • Appendix: Documents of the Inquisition
  • 5. The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future.

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