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The Honest Courtesan

- Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

About The Honest Courtesan

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780226728124
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 408
  • Published:
  • January 31, 1993
  • Dimensions:
  • 153x228x24 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 626 g.
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Description of The Honest Courtesan

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.

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