Veronica Franco in Dialogue

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  • Veronica Franco in Dialogue Book Detail

  • Author : Marilyn Migiel
  • Release Date : 2022-03-31
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 285
  • ISBN 13 : 1487542593
  • File Size : 94,94 MB
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Veronica Franco in Dialogue by Marilyn Migiel PDF Summary

Book Description: Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated her sexuality, an outspoken champion of women and their worth, and an important intellectual and cultural presence in sixteenth-century Venice. In Veronica Franco in Dialogue, Marilyn Migiel provides a nuanced account of Franco’s rhetorical strategies through a close analysis of her literary work. Focusing on the first fourteen poems in the Terze rime, a collection of Franco’s poems published in 1575, Migiel looks specifically at back-and-forth exchanges between Franco and an unknown male author. Migiel argues that in order to better understand what Franco is doing in the poetic collection, it is essential to understand how she constructs her identity as author, lover, and sex worker in relation to this unknown male author. Veronica Franco in Dialogue accounts for the moments of ambivalence, uncertainty, and indirectness in Franco’s poetry, as well as the polemicism and assertions of triumph. In doing so, it asks readers to consider their ideological investments in the stories we tell about early modern female authors and their cultural production.

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