The Honest Courtesan

Klappentext Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 Zusammenfassung The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license. What then to make of the honest courtesan! who recast virtue as intellectual integrity. Veronico Franco was such a woman and this text reveals in her writing a passionate support for defedeless women. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Margaret F. Rosenthal, Margareth F. Rosenthal
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1993
• EAN: 9780226728124
• ISBN: 978-0-226-72812-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Italien, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch