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Margaret F. Rosenthal
408 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226728117
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: Not specified
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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 offere...
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![The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal](https://assets.thestorygraph.com/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
—
Margaret F. Rosenthal
408 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226728117
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 offere...