Courtesan


  • Veronica Franco: Dangerous Beauty, Courtesan, and Poet

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about the iconic poet and Courtesan Veronica Franco!   She was the subject of the 1998 film Dangerous Beauty, which was based on the biography The Honest Courtesan by Margaret F. Rosenthal.    Veronica Franco was born in…