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Margaret F. Rosenthal

The Honest Courtesan

Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

408 pages, 31 halftones  6 x 9  © 1992
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226728124   Published February 1993

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies
2: Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons
Appendix: Two Testaments and a Tax Report
3: Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters
4: Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate
Appendix: Documents of the Inquisition
5: The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Awards
  • Howard R. Marraro Prize
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