Poems and Selected Letters

Name: Poems and Selected Letters
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ISBN: 9780226259871

ISBN-10: 0226259870

ISBN-13: 9780226259871

Edition: 1998

Authors: Veronica Franco, Ann Rosalind Jones, Margaret F. Rosenthal

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Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion pictureDangerous 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 and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction to the Series


Introduction: The Honored Courtesan Veronica Franco


Familiar Letters to Various People Poems in Terza Rima


Bibliography


Index