Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (* 1546 in Venice ; † 1591 ibid) was a poet of the Italian Renaissance and the most famous courtesan of her time.
Life
Veronica was the daughter of a cortigiana onesta , an intellectual courtesan, and learned the art from her mother at a young age. In 1565 Veronica was listed in Il Catalogo Di tutte le principale and Pi ù honorate cortigiane Di Venezia , which released the names, addresses, and fees of Venice's most prestigious prostitutes.
Among other things, she devoted herself to studying philosophy ; her friends included poets and painters , and it was during this time that the portrait of Jacopo Tintoretto was created . By the 1570s she was part of one of the city's more prestigious literary circles, participating in and contributing to discussions and editing anthologies of poetry. Trained by her natural beauty and abilities, she married a wealthy doctor in 1564. But the marriage was not happy and Veronica soon left her husband.
In 1575 her love poems Terze rime appeared . In the same year the plague broke out and she fled the city with her children. Two years later she returned to Venice. In 1580 Veronica published her Lettere familiari a diversi [... letters written in my youth], as well as two to the French King Henry III. including directed sonnets , with whom she even entered into a brief association in 1574.
The lettere by Veronica Franco were briefly on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum from 1590 to 1596 .
Movies
The 1998 film Dangerous Beauty - The Courtesan of Venice , directed by Marshall Herskovitz, is about the life of Veronica Franco. The leading roles are played by Catherine McCormack as Veronica Franco and Rufus Sewell as Marco Venier.
literature
- Joseph Hilgers: The Index of Forbidden Books. In its new version presented and legally and historically recognized , Herder, Freiburg in Breisgau 1904, p. 145
- A. Grewe: Veronica Franco: The lyric work . Kindler's New Literature Lexicon, Volume 21.
- Thomas Klinger, Eva Gesine Baur : Venice, city of women. Love, power and intrigue in the Serenissima . 1st edition. Knesebeck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89660-313-2 .
- Margaret F. Rosenthal: The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1992, ISBN 0-226-72812-9 .
- Stefano Bianchi, La scrittura poetica femminile nel Cinquecento veneto: Gaspara Stampa e Veronica Franco , Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2013. ISBN 978-88-8247-337-2
Web links
- Short portrait of Veronica Francos (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franco, Veronica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and courtesan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1546 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1591 |
| Place of death | Venice |