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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice - Women in Culture and Society Margaret F. Rosenthal 2nd edition
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice - Women in Culture and Society
Margaret F. Rosenthal
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.
432 pages, 31 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 1, 1993 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226728124 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 408 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 24 mm · 620 g |