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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 was born to a family in the Cittadino class. [1] She developed her position in Renaissance Venetian society as a cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were intellectual sex workers who derived their position in society from refinement and cultural prowess.
Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, and starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell and Oliver Platt.Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the ...
The legendary Italian filmmaker’s explicit and exquisite romance, about three young people exploring the far reaches of desire in Paris during the spring of 1968, almost didn’t make it into ...
Rosenthal, Margaret F. The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice. 2012; Servadio, Gaia. Renaissance woman. Bloomsbury Academia, 2005; Sison, Arielle. Veronica Franco and the 'Cortigiane Oneste': Attaining Power through Prostitution in Sixteenth-Century Venice. Stanford.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
One type of courtesan was known (in Italy) as the cortigiana onesta, or the honest courtesan, who was cast as an intellectual. Another was the cortigiana di lume, a lower class of courtesan. The former was the sort most often romanticized and treated more-or-less equal to women of the nobility.
Currently, the Honest Company is valued at around $609 million, significantly less than the $1.7 billion value it had at the time it went public. News broke earlier this week that Alba and Warren ...