Description
| Product ID: | 9780226728124 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Women in Culture & Society Series WCS |
| Title: | The Honest Courtesan |
| Subtitle: | Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice |
| Authors: | Author: Margaret F. Rosenthal |
| Page Count: | 408 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, European history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women, Italy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1993-02-01 |