The Honest Courtesan
Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

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
Modern Language Association of America: Howard R. Marraro Prize
Won
History: European History
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