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The Honest Courtesan : Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series)
The Honest Courtesan Veronica Franco Citizen and Writer in SixteenthCentury Venice - Women in Culture and Society Series
Author: Margaret F. Rosenthal
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 place in public life? Veronica Franco (15...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226728124
ISBN-10: 0226728129
Publication Date: 2/1/1993
Pages: 408
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3.4 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 8
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daedelys avatar reviewed The Honest Courtesan : Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series) on + 1218 more book reviews
I thought the book was very informative, but never finished it just because the writing style was so boring. I glimpsed through it and just saw a lot of similar stories and bits of poetry that the author tries to interpret. It's a good book, I suppose, for someone who really wants to learn a lot of details about Franco, but I prefer a more broad story. Perhaps since this one just didn't really tell me anything I didn't already come across previously.


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