![]() ![]() On humanists’ injunctions against women's public status and speech, see King, Margaret L., “Caldiera and the Barbaros on Marriage and the Family: Humanist Reflections of Venetian Realities,” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 6 ( 1976) Google Scholar: 19-50 idem, “Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance,” in Beyond their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, ed. (In the fifteenth century, prostitutes’ and courtesans’ activities and housing were restricted.) A further distinction is made for the lowest class of prostitutes or meretrici, who earned their living solely by selling sexual favors to men. Each author speaks of the differences between the Venetian cortigiana onesta and the lower class cortigiana di lume, which designated those courtesans who lived in inns, most often in the region near the Rialto bridge called the Castelletto. 9– 12 Google Scholar, 152 Larivaille, Paul, La vie quotidienne des courtisanes en Italie au temps de la Renaissance ( Paris, 1975), pp. 120 Google Scholar Masson, Georgina, Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance ( London, 1975), pp. 318-19 Musatti, Eugenio, La donna in Venezia ( Padua, 1892), p. 19– 43 Google Scholar Croce, Benedetto, Poetiescrittoridel pieno e tardo rinascimento ( Bari, 1970) Google Scholar, pp. 1 For a discussion of this paradoxical term, see di Villaviera, Rita Casagrande, Le cortigiane veneziane del Cinquecento ( Milan, 1968), pp. ![]()
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