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Title: The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society) by Margaret F. Rosenthal, Catharine R. Stimpson ISBN: 0-226-72812-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent, but a little slow
Comment: I greatly enjoyed this book, but I found that wading through 16th century Venetian dialect was difficult. If you are looking for an entertaining story biography, look elsewhere, but if you want a dissertation-style biography, you will enjoy this, as I did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent portrait of a lady
Comment: Veronica Franco was a magnificent woman, and I was ecstatic to find this book after seeing the film based on her life, 'Dangerous Beauty'. Sometimes this biography is slow and verbose, but exciting nonetheless to learn all about this fascinating woman. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about 16th century Venice, women, courtesans, or someone who just wants to broaden their views.
Rating: 5
Summary: One smart cookie, that Veronica
Comment: Veronica Franco was a scholar, a skillful poet, a prostitute--and one of the most fascinating characters to emerge from Renaissance Venice. Given the current climate--in which a dim-faced bimbo can bring down a president--this book is refreshing in that it tells how Franco used sex to further the political and economic causes of her beloved home, Venice. Though the author wrote this as an academic biography, the character, personality, and wit of Franco comes through. The whole story is set in the lushly atmospheric and decadent days when Venice was on the verge of losing its dominance as an empire. Highly recommended, as is the volume of Franco's poetry just released by the University of Chicago Press.
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Title:Dangerous Beauty ASIN: 6305078319 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.28 |
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Title: Poems and Selected Letters (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Veronica Franco, Ann Rosalind Jones, Margaret F. Rosenthal ISBN: 0226259870 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin ISBN: 0767904508 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris (European Women Writers Series) by Celeste Venard De Chabrillan, Monique Fleury Nagem, Celeste Mogador ISBN: 0803282737 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Risqué Beauty: Beauty Secrets of History's Most Notorious Courtesans by Daniela Turudich ISBN: 1930064098 Publisher: Streamline Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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