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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
ISBN: 9780226728124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position.
Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her... The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of ...
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Aretino's Dialogues
ISBN: 9780802048905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance literature, and certainly the most controversial. Condemned by some as a pornographer, his infamy was due largely to his use of explicit sexuality and the vulgar tongue of ordinary speech in much of his work. Dialogues centres around a conversation between two rather frank, experienced, and sharp-tongued women on the topic of women's occupations. We learn that at the time there were only three: wife, whore, or nun. Their discussion is a rollicking account of the advantages, perils, and... Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance literature, and certainly the most controversial. Condemned... |
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