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Veronica Franco : A woman's greatest, and most hard-won asset - is an education. Giulia De Lezze : Just because you can say it in Latin doesn't make it any less obscene.
This combat was performed by dueling authors, and was witnessed and judged by their drawing. room audience, by the city itself, and ultimately by posterity. The ten -zone, or poetic battle, featured the courtesan poetess Veronica Franco, considered the most famous woman in Venice at that time,5 and Maffio Venier, Venetian cleric, celebrated ...
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose. Renaissance Venetian society recognized two very different classes of courtesans: the cortigiana onesta (intellectual courtesans) and the cortigiana di lume (lower-class prostitutes, often streetwalkers).
Veronica Franco mingled with the cultural elite of Venice in her work as a courtesan and poet. Among other literary and artistic figures, Franco befriended Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), a native-born painter who was renowned for his portraits of the Venetian nobility and his religious narratives.
Veronica Franco (1546-1591), the most famous courtesan of renaissance Venice, was a poet, proto-feminist and philanthropist. As a cortigiana onesta, or “honored courtesan,” Franco belonged to a literary and social elite. In renaissance Europe, a courtesan was a highly paid sexual entertainer whose prestige as beauty, conversationalist, and ...
Sep 22, 2006 · The controversies surrounding Veronica Franco, both in our own time and in the sixteenth century, are fascinating. This essay shall return to this much-studied controversy once again, investigating the personal stakes of those individuals involved, but also, perhaps more significantly, the cultural stakes in the struggle over Franco's reputation and, indeed, her body.
Francesca is an undergraduate at the University of Southern California Dornsife College for Letters, Arts and Science. In the Fall 2011 she transferred to USC from Santa Monica College. She first encountered Veronica Franco and the world of Venetian courtesans through Professor Rosenthal’s First-Year Investigation course titled “Renaissance ...
