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Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty ) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance... read more
First Sentence
her unique beauty"). It may well be that Franco saw this attack on male poets as well as herself as a justification for asking for advice, in Capitolo 23, from a man expert in the language of dueling, possibly Domenico Venier, as she prepared to respond to her enemy.
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- Veronica Franco (Author)
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