-
ruler was
called the "favourite". In
Renaissance usage, the
Italian word
cortigiana,
feminine of
cortigiano ("courtier"), came to
refer to a
person who attends...
- The
Queen of
Babylon (Italian: La
cortigiana di Babilonia) is a 1954
Italian peplum film set in the Neo-Babylonian
Empire in the year 600 BC. This film...
- class. She
developed her
position in
Renaissance Venetian society as a
cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were
intellectual ****
workers who derived...
- Frine,
Courtesan of
Orient (Italian: Frine,
cortigiana d'Oriente) is a 1953
Italian epic
adventure film
directed by
Mario Bonnard and
starring Elena Kleus...
- courtesans. In
Italian Renaissance society existed the
category of a
cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were
intellectual ****
workers who derived...
-
Renaissance Neoplatonic dialogues is set in a
brothel – and
comedies such as La
cortigiana and La talenta,
Aretino is
remembered above all for his letters, full...
-
Commedia erudita are
Italian comedies written for the
enjoyment of
scholars in the
sixteenth century. They were
meant to
mimic and
emulate the
works of...
-
magazine 900. The
journal published his
first short stories,
including Cortigiana stanca (The
Tired Courtesan in
French as L****itude de courtisane, 1927)...
- "Sonetti
Lussuriosi e
Dubbi Amorosi", "The
Secret Life of Wives", "La
Cortigiana", "Ragionamenti".
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage,
Portuguese poet. Books:...
- period.
Women were
still confined to the
roles of "monaca, moglie, serva,
cortigiana" ("nun, wife, servant, courtesan"). However,
literacy spread among upper-class...
