-
ruler was
called the "favourite". In
Renaissance usage, the
Italian word
cortigiana,
feminine of
cortigiano ("courtier"), came to
refer to a
person who attends...
- class. She
developed her
position in
Renaissance Venetian society as a
cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were
intellectual ****
workers who derived...
- 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...
- courtesans. In
Italian Renaissance society existed the
category of 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...
-
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)...
-
story by
Edoardo Scarfoglio. The
following year, the
peplum film
Frine cortigiana d'Oriente ("Phryne, the
Oriental Courtesan") was released. Both films...
- the
company were men. She is ****umed to have been a
former courtesan, a
cortigiana onesta, a
common background for the
first generation of
actresses in Italy:...
-
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...
