عنوان

Poems and selected letters /

(Number (ISBN

0226259854

(Number (ISBN

0226259862

(Number (ISBN

9780226259857

(Number (ISBN

9780226259864

Erroneous ISBN

0226259862

Erroneous ISBN

0226259870

Erroneous ISBN

9780226259857

Erroneous ISBN

9780226259871

Number

b733823

Title Proper

Poems and selected letters /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Veronica Franco ; edited and translated by Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxvi, 300 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Other voice in early modern Europe

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: The Honored Courtesan -- Veronica Franco, Familiar Letters to Various People -- Poems in Terza Rima.

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Text of Note

"Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers--merchants, ambassadors, even kings--who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life. Franco became a writer by allying herself with distinguished men at the center of her city's culture, particularly in the informal meetings of a literary salon at the home of Domenico Venier, the oldest member of a noble family and a former Venetian senator. Through Venier's protection and her own determination, Franco published work in which she defended her fellow courtesans, speaking out against their mistreatment by men and criticizing the subordination of women in general. Venier also provided literary counsel when she responded to insulting attacks written by the male Venetian poet Maffio Venier. Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries make her life and work pertinent today."--Pub. dexsc.

Title

Poems and selected letters.

General Material Designation

Works.

Date of Publication

1998

Form Subheading

Selections.

Language (when part of a heading)

English & Italian.

Franco, Veronica, 1546-1591

Franco, Veronica.

Authors, Italian-- 16th century.

Authors, Italian.

Literarisches Leben

POETRY-- Continental European.

Schriftstellerin

POE-- 005030

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Franco, Veronica,1546-1591.

Jones, Ann Rosalind.

Rosenthal, Margaret F.

Date of Transaction

20201203185516.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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