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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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Women in culture and society.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
