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Author: Veronica Franco
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226259862

Poems and Selected Letters (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. Get Poems and Selected Letters literature books for free.
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 Vene Check Poems and Selected Letters our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.