Veronica Franco lived in a city that worshipped beauty yet punished women who owned it...
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Veronica Franco lived in a city that worshipped beauty yet punished women who owned it...
As a Venetian courtesan, she was permitted into salons, academies, diplomatic tables—spaces where wives were barred—but her access came with a price: she had to be exceptional. She wrote poetry with the precision of a scholar and the audacity of someone who understood that male desire was a currency she could negotiate on her own terms. Her verses didn’t flatter patrons; they challenged them #globalmuseum -
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