{"product_id":"honest-courtesan-9780226728124","title":"Honest Courtesan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license. What then to make of the honest courtesan, who recast virtue as intellectual integrity. Veronico Franco was such a woman and this text reveals in her writing a passionate support for defedeless women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732917432663,"sku":"9780226728124","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226728124.jpg?v=1719998940","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/honest-courtesan-9780226728124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}