The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco Citizen and Writer in 16th Century Venice
$28 $45
Size
Like and save for later
Add To Bundle
Book overview
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 place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position. 1992 edition. Excellent condition!!
Shipping/Discount
![dvalkingburg](https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/users/2021/02/15/2/t_602a52b6898c4a6728efb6b3.jpeg)
dvalkingburg
likes this
Trending Now
Find Similar Listings