Veronica Franco [SEP] place of death
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.
Life as a courtesan.
Renaissance Venetian society recognized two different classes of courtesans: the "cortigiana onesta," the intellectual courtesan, and the "cortigiana di lume," lower-class prostitutes who tended to live and practise their trade near the Rialto Bridge. Veronica Franco was perhaps the most celebrated member of the former category, although she was hardly the only "onesta" in 16th-century Venice who
The Honest Courtesan
The Honest Courtesan is a 1992 biographical book by Margaret Rosenthal about a 16th-century Venetian courtesan named Veronica Franco.
Description.
The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - 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,