The Honest Courtesan
Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license. What then to make of the honest courtesan, who recast virtue as intellectual integrity. Veronico Franco was such a woman and this text reveals in her writing a passionate support for defedeless women.
Specificaties
ISBN/EAN | 9780226728124 |
Auteur | Margaret F. Rosenthal |
Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 408 |
Lengte | 235.0 mm |
Breedte | 159.0 mm |