{"product_id":"the-honest-courtesan-veronica-franco-citizen-and-writer-in-sixteenth-century-venice-paperback","title":"The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret F. Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the \u003ci\u003ecortigiana onesta\u003c\/i\u003e-the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women-and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries-that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic.\"-Helen Hackett, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Honest Courtesan\u003c\/i\u003e is the basis for the film \u003ci\u003eDangerous Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled \u003ci\u003eThe Honest Courtesan\u003c\/i\u003e for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 8.99 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45284914528358,"sku":"9780226728124","price":65.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cTVkYTkzMFBGMkJsSGs0S09xZk5adz09.webp?v=1773910226","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-honest-courtesan-veronica-franco-citizen-and-writer-in-sixteenth-century-venice-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}