Poems and Selected Letters.

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Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender id...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Franco, Veronica
Other Authors: Jones, Ann Rosalind, Rosenthal, Margaret F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Series:Other voice in early modern Europe.
Subjects:
Franco, Veronica, > 1546-1591.
Franco, Veronica, > 1546-1591
16th century, poetry, literature, literary studies, poet, poems, letters, letter writing, protofeminist, feminism, gender study, eroticism, erotic, ideology, sexual relations, sex, sexuality, honored courtesan, venice, intellectual integrity, patronage, domenico venier, subordination, power dynamics, italian writers, italy, advocacy, humanism, humanist education, cultural contributions, capitoli in terze rime and lettere familiari a diversi, translated works, translation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: The Honored Courtesan; Veronica Franco, Familiar Letters to Various People; Poems in Terza Rima; Bibliography; Index.

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