The Honest Courtesan
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The Honest Courtesan is a 1992 biographical book by Margaret Rosenthal about a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica Franco. In 1998 a film based on the book was titled Dangerous Beauty.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies
- 2: Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons
- Appendix: Two Testaments and a Tax Report
- 3: Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters
- 4: Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate
- Appendix: Documents of the Inquisition
- 5: The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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First edition
The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice. Margaret F. Rosenthal. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-72811-0 (hardbound), ISBN 0-226-72812-9 (paperback)
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