| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Series |
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe |
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: The Honored Courtesan; Veronica Franco, Familiar Letters to Various People; Poems in Terza Rima; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers?merchants, ambassadors, even kings?who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress a |
| Analysis |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Franco, Veronica, 1546-1591.
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| SUBJECT |
Franco, Veronica, 1546-1591 fast |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Ann Rosalind
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Rosenthal, Margaret F
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| ISBN |
9780226259857 |
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0226259854 |
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1281125644 |
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9781281125644 |
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