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	Veronica Franco - Life as a courtesan, Written records, Film portrayal
		In 1575, during the epidemic of plague that ravaged the city, Veronica Franco was forced to leave Venice and lost much of her wealth when her house and possessions were looted.
		In 1575 Franco's own volume was published, Terze rime, containing 18 capitoli (verse epistles) by her and 7 by men writing in her praise.
		Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/22968/Veronica-Franco.html (592 words)

	Veronica Franco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a poet and courtesan of Venice during the sixteenth century.
		Veronica Franco was the daughter of a "cortigiana," or courtesan, and was married at an early age.
		Eight books of poems and letters by Veronica Franco may be found at http://www.library.upenn.edu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veronica_Franco (304 words)

	( veronica franco <-> the fanlisting ) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in 1546, Veronica Franco was the daughter of a "cortigane", or courtesan.
		Veronica Franco was "catalog"ed as one of the most exceptional courtesans in Venice in Il Catalogo di tutte le principale et piu honorate cortigiane di Venezia.
		Veronica's once praised accoplishments had become those of "a witch and a public whore." She was denounced, thought of, and treated like a complete heretic.
	koukeisha.net /vf-fanlisting/about.htm (514 words)

	Veronica
		Veronica Franco was in love with Marco Venier, but his powerful family forbade their union.
		Veronica was tutored by her mother, Paola Franco (a former courtesan), in the fine arts, literature and all the social graces.
		Veronica was unique in that she was an intelligent woman of wit who never allowed herself to be dominated by her powerful clients.
	crawfordmanor.com /veronica.html (381 words)

	franco
		Franco was actually married off at a young age to a doctor by the name of Paolo Panizza, but the film leaves this out in order to portray a young woman not having any options besides prostitution.
		Franco separated from her husband which could be why the filmmaker chose to portray her as a single woman.
		Veronica Franco had six children, three of which survived infancy and all of different fathers, none of them her husband.
	employees.csbsju.edu /ewengler/franco.htm (2080 words)

	DIONYSIAN IMAGERY IN ALERAMO’S MOMENTI
		Franco, who had been introduced to the courtesan’s life by her mother Paola, had by this time been married and separated, raised several children, and gone on to considerable success in each of her professions.
		Franco was ridiculed in verse by her enemies, and in 1580—the year in which her letters appeared—Ridolfo Vannitelli, the tutor of one of Franco’s sons, accused her of performing magical incantations.
		Franco reiterates that, despite the courtesan’s desire and potential for economic independence, her economic autonomy is perpetually unstable, as she constantly risks that “un solo un dì ti toglie quanto con molti in molto tempo hai acquistato” (XXII).
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1996/Italian-html/Ray,Meredith.htm (6221 words)

	Veronica, meretrice e scrittora \| information about the play
		In a series of dreams and flashbacks, we see Veronica as she was before her illness.We learn of her household, and her turbulent relationships with the men in her life, and we witness to the events leading up to her illness.
		Veronica is in the lazzaretto, on the left side of the stage, delirious from high fever while dreaming of her husband, who left her taking all her money with him.
		Veronica is able to avoid conviction thanks to her own defense in front of the Monsignor.
	www.geocities.com /italian_drama_workshop/1999/veronica.html (614 words)

	Veronica Franco
		Veronica Franco was a scholar, a skillful poet, a prostitute--and one of the most fascinating characters to emerge from Renaissance Venice.
		Veronica was the daughter of a former courtesan and contrary to assumption did not want to follow in her mother’s footsteps.
		Franco tried in vain to reclaim the dowry her parents could hardly afford in the first place, but with a family to support, including a young child, she was left with no other options.
	www.lycos.com /info/veronica-franco.html (641 words)

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		Veronica Franco, the heroine of Dangerous Beauty, has access to libraries from which respectable women are barred, and besides being erudite and well versed in the erotic arts, she is also an expert fencer and a respected poet.
		Veronica Franco, as played by Catherine McCormack, is a bookish and tomboyish beauty, in love with Marco Venieri, the son and heir of a wealthy and influential nobleman, played by Rufus Sewell.
		Veronica's accomplishments add to the glory of Venice, and she is called upon during negotiations with neighboring powers in times of emergency.
	www.mcla.mass.edu /Publications/Faculty_Publications/The_Minds_Eye_spring_99/tamaya.htm (2395 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Film \| Venus Envy \| 1998-02-18 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veronica Franco is her name, and her character is based on a real-life poet-courtesan.
		Unlike the historical Veronica Franco, who had a brief, youthful marriage to a man who was probably a doctor, the movie's Veronica dreams of wedding the dashing Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell); unfortunately, he needs to make a wealthier match for the good of his family and his city-state.
		As Rosenthal writes, Veronica Franco was "aware that to be a woman citizen in a city that characterized itself as a 'donzella immaculata' (immaculate maiden) was problematic.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1998-02-18/film/film3.html (1039 words)

	DANGEROUS BEAUTY movie review with photos, video
		Veronica (Catherine McCormack), the daughter of a wise but poor woman (Jacqueline Bisset), loves the well-born Marco (Rufus Sewell) but is broken-hearted when he admits he cannot marry her because his family requires a more politically advantageous union.
		As Veronica's mother tells her, "Marriage is a contract, not a perpetual tryst." Veronica's revenge, her mother teaches her, is to become a courtesan: someone who can be Marco's lover without having to deal with the duties of being a wife.
		She educates Veronica in both the knowledge of the world and the ways of men, teaching her to become the woman that the men of Venice turn to for stimulation -- both physical and mental -- when their wives begin to bore them.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/d/dangerous.html (466 words)

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	Capital Scholar
		Franco separates her writing from lovemaking, and yet the fact that she portrays herself as both the author of the written word and the male delight.
		Franco’s stark criticisms of the daughter’s mother reinforces that “there is always at least a little good mother milk left in her” (22), and makes her poems humane.
		Franco transgressed the sixteenth century norms of chastity and silence for women in literature to write about her life, her lovers and the reality of a courtesan.
	www12.georgetown.edu /students/organizations/nscs/capitalscholar/hernandez2.html (3267 words)

	Paula Findlen
		Franco was an important participant in the public cultural life of the city.
		While Franco had been celebrated as the embodiment of Venice (sexual and cultured rather than virginal), she now was castigated as a leading example of Venice's sins that had brought plague to the city.
		By 1582, at the age of 36, Franco was utterly impoverished and increasingly obscure.
	www.stanford.edu /class/history213b/213bFranco.html (751 words)

	Biography: Franco, Veronica
		Franco is also openly erotic, even sexually explicit From her first poem, she celebrates her sexual expertise as a courtesan and promises to satisfy her interlocutor's desires.
		Her familiar letters, intended for publication, allow Franco to shift her private life into the public sphere; they permitted her to comment in print on the behavior of men and to insist on the courtesan's virtue, reason, wisdom and fairness.
		Even though her letters firmly established her reputation as a courtesan to the elite, Franco was brought to the Inquisition courts in 1580 by her son's tutor, Ridolfo Vannitelli, on charges of having practiced magical incantations in her home.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/IWW/BIOS/A0017.html (977 words)

	Works Cited (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests.
		It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women--and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries--that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today.
		According to Crawford, one of the nobleman's principles seems to have been that a woman was never in danger in public, nor when her door was locked on the outside and the key was in her husband's pocket, but that any intermediate state of partial liberty was fraught with peril.
	www.louisville.edu /~agpick01/workscited.html (4776 words)

	Term Project Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veronica Franco was one of the more noted Venice courtesans during the last half of the sixteenth century whose history has been partially saved through her own writings and by Italian historians.
		As a courtesan, Franco was able to cross the private and public realms of her culture and fight for the rights of the women who were kept quiet, uneducated and hidden from the public statutes that decided what women could be.
		Franco used her wiles as a woman to break the rules and the fight the social constructs that made her who she was.
	www.louisville.edu /~agpick01/termprojectproposal.html (440 words)

	Show #174 of Reeling: The Movie Review Show with Robin and Laura Clifford
		Veronica, penniless and without birth status, has two choices - a life of dour drudgery in a poor marriage, or a chance for one of education, comfort, elegance and, of course, the virtues of seduction.
		During the silly scene, the normally demure and graceful Veronica has to be trained on the important things like eating, drinking and walking, none of which she seemed to have known how to do before the lessons.
		The ending of the film, when Veronica is confronted by the Inquisition for being a witch, is straight out of "Footloose" in a trite, if not outright stupid, bit of filmmaking, as all the powerful men of Venice, one by one, stand up against the Inquisition for their favorite harlot.
	www.reelingreviews.com /reel174.htm (4356 words)

	A 16th Century Call Girl
		At the beginning of the film, innocent Veronica Franco plans on marrying the handsome Marco (Rufus Sewell, Cold Comfort Farm); however, despite the fact that they clearly love each other, Marco is forced to tell Veronica that he is expected to marry a woman of higher station.
		Veronica is unconvinced, until she is introduced to the world to which the Venetian courtesan is privy, grandly epitomized by a library full of books from which ordinary women are barred.
		Veronica's longstanding feud with a fellow poetturned Inquisitor comes to clash in the halls of the church, where she is accused of witchcraft, and where the audience is left to anticipate what fate awaits their heroine in a cleverlycrafted scene.
	www.umich.edu /~mrev/archives/1998/4-1-98/pg15b.htm (519 words)

	Veronica Franco (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veronica Franco was born in Venice in 1546.
		Veronica Franco is an inspiration to all women, even though her profession was one most women would not settle for.
		Veronica spoke out from her heart and soul...she spoke of a womens freedom to be alive to love without shame or remorse.
	blue.carisenda.com /archives/000709.html (517 words)

	DANGEROUS BEAUTY
		Some may see Veronica's mother pushing her into prostitution (as a courtesan) as having both, while others may see it as the only sensible thing to do at the time (in 16th century Venice when lower class women didn't have many options).
		Veronica then looks surprised at both her mother walking up and holding the man's genitals (not seen, it occurs just off camera) and then to his implied physical reaction.
		Veronica has sex for the first time with an older man. He lies nude on top of her, and we see her bare breasts, some movement, and hear sexual sounds.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/dangerous_beauty.html (2467 words)

	Veronica Franco
		In 1565, when she was about 20 years old, Veronica Franco was listed in Il Catalogo di tutte le principale et piu honorate cortigiane di Venezia, which gave the names, addresses, and fees of Venice's most prominent prostitutes; her mother was listed as the person to whom the fee should be paid.
		From extant records, we know that by the time she was 18, Franco had been briefly married and had given birth to her first child; she would eventually have six children, three of whom died in infancy.
		(b) "Examining the Concept of Authorship in Veronica Franco's Texts" (2005), by Monica Hernandez, discusses the ways in which Franco established her authority as a public figure and as a writing woman; quoted passages are given in Joness and Rosenthal's translation.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/franco.html (2685 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online muse Thursday, February 19, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Veronica is able to educate herself; she has freedom and sensuality that the “respectable” women of Venice would never be allowed to exhibit.
		Veronica is a strong character— we watch her grow from an awkward adolescent to an intelligent, graceful woman.
		Veronica’s charm is that she is not just a pretty face; she is intelligent and self-confident, and her tale is all the more fascinating because it is true.
	www.collegepublisher.com /media/paper87/DFPArchive/muse/02199811.html (460 words)

	Veronica P. Franco - Condominium Lawyer - Vancouver, BC, Canada
		Veronica Franco is an associate of Clark Wilson LLP’s Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Family and Strata Property Practice Groups.
		Veronica obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1994.
		Veronica obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree in 1998 and was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1998.
	www.cwilson.com /profiles/vpf (369 words)

	Barony Of Vatavia, Dangerous Beauty: A Review
		Veronica’s mother did not die from the plague, but by some other cause prior to 1570.
		Henri choosing Veronica out of a crowd of courtesans in the middle of court is dramatic fiction.
		While the flavor of Veronica’s defense was kept intact, the prosecutor was not nearly so vehement, and appeared to be taken off stride by Veronica’s answers.
	www.baronyofvatavia.org /articles/rev/dbview091998as33.php (1113 words)

	The Honest Courtesan : Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society ...
		Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position.
		Comment: Veronica Franco was a magnificent woman, and I was ecstatic to find this book after seeing the film based on her life, 'Dangerous Beauty'.
		Comment: Veronica Franco was a scholar, a skillful poet, a prostitute--and one of the most fascinating characters to emerge from Renaissance Venice.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/0226728129.html (749 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| \| Film \| Venus Envy \| 1998-03-12 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unlike the historical Franco, who had a brief, youthful marriage to a man who was probably a doctor, the movie's Veronica dreams of wedding the dashing Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell); unfortunately he needs to make a wealthier match for the good of his family and his city-state.
		After Veronica humiliates Maffio in a verbal and physical duel, he transforms himself from wastrel poet to Inquisition scourge, and accuses Veronica and her fellow courtesans of breeding licentiousness and the plague.
		With Veronica's life on the line, Marco shames her high-placed johns into standing tall and admitting they've been her "accomplices." The scene cries out for the Mel Brooks of 1981's History of the World -- Part I; with Brooks at the helm, their postures wouldn't have been the only erect thing about them.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/1998-03-12/film.html (994 words)

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