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. 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.

• | By (Author): Margaret F. Rosenthal
• | Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 1993
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780226728124