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 pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenthal, Margaret F. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stimpson, Catharine R. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Colección:Women in Culture and Society
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
venice, italy, courtesan, sex work, prostitution, mistress, sexuality, femininity, elegance, cortigiana onesta, veronica franco, demi monde, virtue, patronage, public sphere, letters, citizenship, authorship, biography, history, book to film, adaptation, inquisition, trial, nonfiction, women, 16th century, dangerous beauty, gender, feminism, patriarchy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies
  • Two. Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons
  • Three. Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters
  • Four. Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate
  • Five. The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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