The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice (Women in Culture & Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice (Women in Culture & Society) Book

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license. What then to make of the honest courtesan, who recast virtue as intellectual integrity. Veronico Franco was such a woman and this text reveals in her writing a passionate support for defedeless women.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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...

  • Pickabook

    Margaret F. Rosenthal, Catharine R. Stimpson (Foreword)

  • 0226728129
  • 9780226728124
  • MF Rosenthal
  • 1 December 1992
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
  • 2nd
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