The Honest Courtesan

The Honest Courtesan

"The Honest Courtesan" is a 1992 biographical book by Margaret Rosenthal about a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica Franco. In 1998 a film based on the book was titled "Dangerous Beauty".

Table of contents

*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

First edition

"The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice". Margaret F. Rosenthal. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-72811-0 (hardbound), ISBN 0-226-72812-9 (paperback)


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