The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice /

Rosenthal, Margaret F.

The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice / Margaret F. Rosenthal. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1992. - 1 online resource (xiv, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. - Women in culture and society .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / 1. Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies -- 2. Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons -- Appendix: Two Testaments and a Tax Report -- 3. Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters -- 4. Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate -- Appendix: Documents of the Inquisition -- 5. The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future Catharine R. Stimpson --



9780226027494


Franco, Veronica, 1546-1591.


Courtesans--Italy--Biography.
Authors, Italian--16th century--Biography.


Electronic Books.

DG678 / .H664 1992