Prostitution
Il catalogo di tutte le principali et più honorate cortigiane di Venezia (Venice, c. 1565). For an English translation by Hannah Johnston, see hereLink opens in a new window. Interactive mapLink opens in a new window
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Clarke, Paula, 'The Business of Prostitution in Early Renaissance Venice,' Renaissance Quarterly 68 (2015), 419-464
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Franco, Veronica, Poems and Selected LettersLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago, 1998)
Johnston, Hannah, 'A Sexual Tour of Venice: Mapping a Sixteenth-Century Catalogue of Courtesans'Link opens in a new window History, 5 January 2022
McGough, Laura, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice (Basingstoke, 2010)
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (Oxford, 1985)
Ruggiero, Guido, 'Wayfarers in Wonderland: The Sexual Worlds of Renaissance Venice Revisited', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 543-569.