The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret F. RosenthalSeries:Women in Culture and SocietyPublish date:1993-02-01Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226728124ISBN-10:226728129UPC:9780226728124Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, EuropeSize:8.99 x 6.09 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.5212Product ID:SCQ9DM3P16
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 place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice,...
Series: Women in Culture and Society
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226728124ISBN-10:226728129UPC:9780226728124Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, EuropeSize:8.99 x 6.09 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.5212Product ID:SCQ9DM3P16
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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