The Honest Courtesan
Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Rosenthal, Margaret F.
The University of Chicago Press, 1993
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780226728124
- ISBN-10
- 0226728129
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1993
- Publication date
- 1993-02-01
- Pages
- 408
- Dimensions
- 228 x 153 x 24
- Weight
- 620