Study of the life and work of the Venetian courtesan and writer Veronica Franco (1546-1591), who worked within the literary traditions of 16th-century Venice. T

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collectio

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, se

Claiming the courtesan's child... Oliver Gregory still remembers the exquisite night he shared with a beautiful woman in Paris. Discovering her working at the L